The Center of the Milky Way

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:37 pm

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ScienceNews
Milky Way's black hole seen in new detail
By Ron Cowen
September 27th, 2008; Vol.174 #7

A closer look at a unique feature in the galaxy’s center suggests outlines of the black hole’s event horizon.

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GALAXY PORTRAIT. An array of radio telescopes allowed the closest look yet at the Milky Way’s center, which may appear as it does in this illustration. Yellow and red depict radio emissions from Sagittarius A*, which appears to be located off-center from the black hole that is thought to reside at the galaxy’s center.

Credit: S. Doeleman, M. Weiss/CXC, S. Noble, C. Gammie, NASA

harry · Post by **harry** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:22 am

G'day from the land of ozzzzzzz

The portrait is an artists movie image.

Have a look at these.

Milky Way's black hole wakes up
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=6821

The Galactic Centre
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/GC/index.php

Discovery of Giant X-ray Loop Hints at Cosmic Particle Accelerator
http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/nam2005/pr16.html

Is Sgr A* a Super-massive Black Hole?
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~reid/sgra.html

The dark heart of the Milky Way
http://www.einstein-online.info/en/spot ... index.html

UCLA Galactic Center Group
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghezgroup/gc/

Unveiling the high energy Milky Way reveals 'dark accelerators'
http://www.pparc.ac.uk/Nw/8sources.asp

The Galactic Center Radio Arc
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080427.html

I was looking for another image of the centre that showed jets. I find it I will post it.

Doum · Post by **Doum** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:41 am

Harry said:

"The portrait is an artists movie image. "

Bystander link aint about the picture but about the new data coming in. The final result will be interesting. First analyse of an area close to the event horizon of the giant black hole in the center of our galaxy. And look at what is coming.

( As larger numbers of radio telescopes are linked and their sensitivity increased, “the distorted world at the edge of a black hole will literally come into focus,” )

That is what is interesting. We are closer to see what is happening near an event horizon has never before.

It is more interesting then just theory. It always reveal something new. Lets see!

Doum · Post by **Doum** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:44 am

uhh nothing just found the edit.

harry · Post by **harry** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:04 am

G'day Down

You said

As larger numbers of radio telescopes are linked and their sensitivity increased, “the distorted world at the edge of a black hole will literally come into focus,” )

That is what is interesting. We are closer to see what is happening near an event horizon has never before. It is more interesting then just theory. It always reveal something new. Lets see!

I fully agree with you.

Shall we see a Dark star or a glowing star?

Doum · Post by **Doum** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:50 pm

We might see what happen near the event horizon of a black hole.

harry · Post by **harry** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:39 pm

G'day Doum

No one has ever seen an event horizon and some do not event think it exists.

Its going to be quite interesting: To see or not to see that is the question.

The closer they get, the only thing that they will see is probably jets. The Black hole and the probable event horizon are too small and being 25,000 light years away is a great ask.

Doum · Post by **Doum** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:47 am

Hi harry

I did not say "we will see the event horizon". I said "we might see near an event horizon". Nuance. So seeing near an event isnt seeing an event, it is seeing the effect a near event horizon of a black hole look like. Since we are not there yet lets wait and see.

interstellaryeller · Post by **interstellaryeller** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:51 pm

bystander wrote:http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic ... new_detail

ScienceNews
Milky Way's black hole seen in new detail
By Ron Cowen
September 27th, 2008; Vol.174 #7

A closer look at a unique feature in the galaxy’s center suggests outlines of the black hole’s event horizon.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/access/ ... ew_web.jpg

GALAXY PORTRAIT. An array of radio telescopes allowed the closest look yet at the Milky Way’s center, which may appear as it does in this illustration. Yellow and red depict radio emissions from Sagittarius A*, which appears to be located off-center from the black hole that is thought to reside at the galaxy’s center.

Credit: S. Doeleman, M. Weiss/CXC, S. Noble, C. Gammie, NASA

What is the blackhole's co-ordanates?

Nereid · Post by **Nereid** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:01 pm

interstellaryeller wrote:
bystander wrote:http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic ... new_detail

ScienceNews
Milky Way's black hole seen in new detail
By Ron Cowen
September 27th, 2008; Vol.174 #7

A closer look at a unique feature in the galaxy’s center suggests outlines of the black hole’s event horizon.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/access/ ... ew_web.jpg

GALAXY PORTRAIT. An array of radio telescopes allowed the closest look yet at the Milky Way’s center, which may appear as it does in this illustration. Yellow and red depict radio emissions from Sagittarius A*, which appears to be located off-center from the black hole that is thought to reside at the galaxy’s center.

Credit: S. Doeleman, M. Weiss/CXC, S. Noble, C. Gammie, NASA
What is the blackhole's co-ordanates?

Same as those of SgrA*: 17 45 40.04 -29 00 28.1 (ICRS 2000.0)

Starship Asterisk*

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