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Virtual Telescope Zooms In On Milky Way Black Hole

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. Beware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A nigger bit off my penis.

    1. Re:Beware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      He probably thought it was a banana. My aunt just gave birth to a niglet, good thing the toilet water was there to break the fall. Lil' buggers sure do stink.

  2. That's Palin. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's Palin for ya.

  3. stupified by ads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    not on the subject, but I felt totaly stupified by the 'flat stomach', fitness add on a ./ page. I am a newcommer and not competent in the ./ culture but think that ads should be in harmony with the site's orientation

  4. Re:obligatory by laejoh · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It is official; Goatse confirms: black holes are dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered fisting community when Goatse confirmed that fisting market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all arses. Coming on the heels of a recent Goatse survey which plainly states that fisting has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Fisting is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent GNAA audit.

  5. Re:Interferometry by Spatial · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe you should, you know, look it up? This is the Internet, you can look up almost anything technical and have an answer of any complexity you desire in under ten seconds. The ability is probably even integrated into your browser.

    It's funny how you define your life through your ignorance, as if knowledge was a bad thing. If you have no interest in curing your own ignorance then tough shit, why should you be catered to? It's sad, because it's so damn easy to learn these days.