NEWS 🚨: The Event Horizon Telescope has captured the first image of our supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A, in polarized light pic.twitter.com/6KdrtMG4x1
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A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Seen in polarized light for the first time, this new view of the monster lurking at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy has revealed a magnetic field structure strikingly similar to that of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, suggesting that strong magnetic fields may be common to all black holes. This similarity also hints toward a hidden jet in Sgr A*. The results were published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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um...it's not black.
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black hole is a racist/sexist slur
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You joke but this already happened in 2008. https://www.npr.org/sections/newsandviews/2008/07/is_black_hole_a_racist_term.html
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yeah I know. I was there
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I don't think slime lives that long.
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Grats on 40!!
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We should call it a supermassive consoomer instead
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