[FRIAM] center of the milkyway does containt a blackhole

[Gillian Densmore]

or at least the event horizons are (the real life kind, not the creapy af
movie kind).

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 8:46 PM Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ok I'll say it here as well
> Tell me that doesn't also look like the eye Sauron is infamous for using
> to great effect. lol!
>
> Ok now that I got that out my system:
> I had wondered if this is the same science stunt we used to image a
> blackhole...but what are they using as a light source and how do decide on
> the galaxy's center
> was this also created by the sheer weight of the galaxy? or did a star go
> kaboom their good knows when and it just happened to be more or less dead
> center of the galaxy?
> and are they all shaped like a toilet?
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 8:08 PM David Eric Smith <desmith at santafe.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, good stuff.
>>
>> I’m not sure when I first heard about the ALMA upgrade that would give
>> them phase coherence across the telescopes at the frequencies the EHT is
>> using, and data archiving that would allow them to try to coherently
>> register telescopes sited all around the world.  It feels like about a
>> decade ago.  I have been waiting, since that first notice, to see this
>> picture.  The M87 image a couple years ago was the resolution of the real
>> cliffhanger — whether they could get it to work at all — but this one was
>> even 2+ years harder to push through technically.
>>
>> I don’t imagine I would want to do that work.  It seems like an
>> incredible tedious grind, made for real professionals.  But I am very glad
>> to be a consumer of the outcome.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 13, 2022, at 11:02 AM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/science/black-hole-photo.html
>>
>> and it looks a bit like something melting on icecream. fudge or caramel
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