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Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way’s Central Black Hole (eventhorizontelescope.org)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Bitswap to c/space
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This is a pretty great image of Sagittarius A

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Article: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/astronomers-unveil-strong-magnetic-fields-spiraling-edge-milky-ways-central-black-hole

[–] Bitswap 8 points 7 months ago

I very much dislike how lemmy overwrites the URL after you include an image....

Thanks for linking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The ngEHT expansion will enable the array to make real-time movies of supermassive black holes on event horizon scales. These movies will resolve detailed structure and dynamics near the event horizon, bringing into focus "strong-field" gravity features predicted by General Relativity as well as the interplay of accretion and relativistic jet-launching that sculpts large-scale structures in the Universe.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's so nice and quiet, here on the outskirts of the milky way.

[–] yemmly 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What am I to make of this? 42?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

😎 Don’t panic πŸ€™

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

42Β²

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you meant to add some article to this headline?

[–] Bitswap 6 points 7 months ago

Yes. Fixed now. I'm super frustrated by the way lemmy overwrites the URL when you add an image.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Damn, these pictures are starting to get really clear

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

It’s not quite an image of what you would see with your eyes. The lines are based on the polarization of the light.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be hilarious to discover in the distant future that some astronomical object just happens to look blurry even at perfect resolution because the object is just blurry in appearance?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

You've seen the real big foot haven't you...

[–] oKtosiTe 2 points 7 months ago

Soon enough the pictures will be clear enough to show that the supermassive object at the center of the universe is in fact your mom.