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Expected to be the first ever image of the MW's central black hole.

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EHT Live : Ground Breaking Announcement on Milky Way Galaxy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd4npzgawAs

We Are About to See Sgr A* Black Hole...Maybe - Million Wonderful People Live Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd6q8B7D8qE
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Re: Live: Event Horizon telescope Announcement on Milky Way Galaxy
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2022, 10:26:25 AM »
That was cool.

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Re: Live: Event Horizon telescope Announcement on Milky Way Galaxy
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2022, 10:53:32 AM »
So is the entire Milky Way Galaxy just a super massive accretion disk for the a super super massive black hole?
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Re: Live: Event Horizon telescope Announcement on Milky Way Galaxy
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2022, 10:54:33 AM »
So is the entire Milky Way Galaxy just a super massive accretion disk for the a super super massive black hole?

The way it's looking that's the general description of just about every galaxy.
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Re: Live: Event Horizon telescope Announcement on Milky Way Galaxy
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2022, 11:03:11 AM »

Except most of the galaxy isn't spiraling inward
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Re: Live: Event Horizon telescope Announcement on Milky Way Galaxy
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2022, 05:13:28 PM »
Except most of the galaxy isn't spiraling inward

Nope, no indication that it has to be, either. There's balance at work, just as there is with the planets orbiting the sun.
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Re: Live: Event Horizon telescope Announcement on Milky Way Galaxy
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2022, 05:58:41 PM »
If it were proven that our galaxy would eventually spiral into the central black hole some billions of years from now, Al Gore would likely blame it on climate change.
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Re: Live: Event Horizon telescope Announcement on Milky Way Galaxy
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2022, 11:36:15 PM »
If it were proven that our galaxy would eventually spiral into the central black hole some billions of years from now, Al Gore would likely blame it on climate change.
And the media would say it's Trump's doing.
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Re: Live: Event Horizon telescope Announcement on Milky Way Galaxy
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2022, 12:46:25 PM »
And the media would say it's Trump's doing.

And then try to find a way to tax to working people in order to further line his pockets.
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Re: Live: Event Horizon telescope Announcement on Milky Way Galaxy
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2022, 07:32:44 PM »
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There are claims they only included data that produced the M87 image they expected.
In other words Confirmation Bias
Sounds familiar
What another team is producing with the data is similar just not the same. So they're not wrong maybe not exactly right.

Could M87* Black Hole Image Be Wrong? Study Recreates Something Else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjTtelR9emw
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