The Center of the Milky Way Galaxy - Photographed!

[EddMarkStarr]

12 MAY 2022

The Event Horizon Telescope released the first photograph of Sagittarius A - the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Of all the videos I've watched today, this video by Derek Muller is the most detailed and expertly explained.

Near the end of the video, Derek Muller gives the best illustration of what we are looking at when we photograph a black hole.

Mod Alert: (the final 90 seconds is a sponsored ad for KiwiCo)

 

[EddMarkStarr]

The Black Hole from, "Interstellar" - 2014.

 

[gsdx]

Have you seen the comparison photos of Hubble and the James Webb telescopes? And we thought Hubble was amazing.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Have you seen the comparison photos of Hubble and the James Webb telescopes? And we thought Hubble was amazing.

They don't look much different to me.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Billions upon billions of public money...

 

[Vannie]

This thread is making me pop a chubby

 

[Peloso]

That doesn't look at all like me.

 

[Kahaih]

/\ then you've never had good Mexican food.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I wonder if it's really appropriate to refer to imagery of space radiation as photography. Often, it's not really visible light that is being rendered, but various radiation that is reinterpreted as visual imagery.

This may be, but much of what we saw of our own solar system was not photography, but some kind of radiography.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

They don't look much different to me.

Same here!

In fact, I was ignoring all the online alerts yesterday morning because it all looked like the same M87 photograph from March 2021.
Actually thought someone was pranking me.

Then I heard the Q&A session of the NASA news conference on NPR, followed by another alert from the European Space Agency - ESA.


By the time I realized what this was all about, most of you guys were all done for the day!

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Billions upon billions of public money...

It does make me wonder - there's enough wealth in the world to transform the lives of millions.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Looks like Belly's hole after the futbol team has had a go at her

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Billions upon billions of public money...

Seriously, like they almost spent the equivalent of my wardrobe, they trippin.