09-11-2019, 09:11 AM
"Black hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be getting hungrier"
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-black-hole...grier.html
" "We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole," said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a co-senior author of the research. "It's usually a pretty quiet, wimpy black hole on a diet. We don't know what is driving this big feast." "
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"The researchers analyzed more than 13,000 observations of the black hole from 133 nights since 2003. The images were gathered by the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile."
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"The new findings are based on observations of the black hole—which is called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*—during four nights in April and May at the Keck Observatory."
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The team that produced this study worked on the Einstein test I posted about previously.
What I find particularly cool is that the data these telescopes collect now (and have in the past) can contain hidden data in the noise that future technology / algorithms / AI etc... will be able to extract. An observation tonight might lead to an insight years from now -- because we have the data!
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-black-hole...grier.html
" "We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole," said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a co-senior author of the research. "It's usually a pretty quiet, wimpy black hole on a diet. We don't know what is driving this big feast." "
...
"The researchers analyzed more than 13,000 observations of the black hole from 133 nights since 2003. The images were gathered by the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile."
...
"The new findings are based on observations of the black hole—which is called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*—during four nights in April and May at the Keck Observatory."
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The team that produced this study worked on the Einstein test I posted about previously.
What I find particularly cool is that the data these telescopes collect now (and have in the past) can contain hidden data in the noise that future technology / algorithms / AI etc... will be able to extract. An observation tonight might lead to an insight years from now -- because we have the data!