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Virtual Telescope Zooms In On Milky Way Black Hole

Posted by samzenpus on from the old-bob dept.

FiReaNGeL writes "An international team has obtained the closest views ever of what is believed to be a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The astronomers used radio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a virtual telescope more than 2,800 miles across that is capable of seeing details more than 1,000 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope. The target of the observations was the source known as Sagittarius A* ("A-star"), long thought to mark the position of a black hole whose mass is 4 million times greater than the sun. Though Sagittarius A* was discovered 30 years ago, the new observations for the first time have an angular resolution, or ability to observe small details, that is matched to the size of the event horizon."

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  1. Re:Pics! by jessica_alba · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    you want a pic of total blackness? look to any republicans heart.

  2. Re:Interferometry by syousef · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    First of all "Modem" is a layman's term? Gimme a break? You analogy is weak as piss.

    Secondly Pendantry???? I explained how things worked in simple terms. When you talk about "Virtual Telescopes" to describe interferometry it's like talking about a virtual go pedal instead of an accelerator in a car. Or perhaps a better analogy isn't modem for a DSL device but "brain" when talking about a CPU. The atricle was a science article for "nerds". It shouldn't resort to baby talk.

    You're just an attention seeking troll.

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  3. Re:Interferometry by Curtman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Interferometry and Aperture Synthesis aren't hard to understand. It's a pet peeve of mine, and slashdotters should be of a level of intelligence that they can understand this stuff.

    Really. Whiny bitches are a pet peeve of mine.

  4. Re:That's Palin. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ah, you'd still do her. MILFy fun.