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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Scientists uncovered a #binarystar system close to #blackhole near center of #MilkyWay, confirming a hypothesis made by happenstance nearly a century ago, according to a paper published in Nature Communications. Scientists previously predicted the existence of a binary #star system -- one in which two stars are gravitationally bound to one another around a common center of gravity -- in the vicinity of the black hole at the center of the galaxy, called #SagittariusA*.
abcnews.go.com/Technology/bina

ABC News · Binary star system found near the Milky Way's black hole: An 'amazing' discovery, astrophysicists sayBy Julia Jacobo
Ansgar Schmidt :verified:

Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope To Unlock Mysteries of Black Holes universetoday.com/167860/new-h #eventhorizontelescope #sagittariusa* #eventhorizon #blackholes #photonring #blackhole #ngeht #eht #m87

Universe Today · Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope To Unlock Mysteries of Black HolesThe prospect of actually resolving the event horizon of black holes feels like the stuff of science fiction yet it is a reality. Already the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has resolved the horizon of the black holes at the centre of the Milky Way and M87. A team of astronomers are now looking to the … Continue reading "Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope To Unlock Mysteries of Black Holes"
Merula Passeri

Artist's illustrations of #BlackHoles often have this characteristic ring which is in front of the #BlackHole and continues "above". This ring is an #AccretionDisk made of hot matter on an orbit of the black hole. The strange shape of this ring is due to light bending by the black hole's incredible strong gravitation, which makes something which is *behind* the black hole appear to be above it. [1/3]
#science #physics #gravitation #gravity #M87 #SagittariusA

Liminal Fiction

Writer Fuel: A new polarized light image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* has given us our first clear look at the magnetic field of the cosmic juggernaut, which suggests that it may have superheated jets just like even larger black holes.

limfic.com/2024/05/31/writer-f

#LimFic #LiminalFiction #WriterFuel #Writers #Authors #WritersofMastodon #StoryIdeas @BlackHole #SagittariusA #MilkyWay #Astronomy

Spaceflight 🚀

#ESO "This is not the most massive #BlackHole in our #galaxy — that title belongs to #SagittariusA, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s centre, which has about four million times the mass of the Sun. But #GaiaBH3 is the most massive black hole known in the #MilkyWay 🌌 that formed from the collapse of a star" eso.org/public/news/eso2408/

www.eso.orgMost massive stellar black hole in our galaxy foundAstronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission because it imposes an odd ‘wobbling’ motion on the companion star orbiting it. Data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) and other ground-based observatories were used to verify the mass of the black hole, putting it at an impressive 33 times that of the Sun.
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