Thursday, May 12, 2022

Ooh, Pretty Picture...

 ...of Sagitarrius A*!

As some pundits predicted, the Event Horizon team has now released their second image of a black hole, and this time it's Sagitarrius A*.

Most galaxies are held together by a gravitational anchor in the form of an extremely large black hole, at least in theory.

The image confirms it for sure in the case of one galaxy: Ours.

The picture looks very similar to the one of the other black hole, but has some interesting "spikes" extending out from it. This might be because SgR A* is much smaller, which causes the gas to orbit faster and the image is a composite/average.

Follow this link to see the loveliness.

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