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Astronomers Planning To Image Milky Way's Central Black Hole

Posted by Unknown on from the the-reality-is-much-much-worse dept.

99luftballon writes "Astronomers are planning the Event Horizon Telescope project in Arizona on Wednesday — and say in three or four years they should be able to image the ring of matter around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The black hole is 26,000 light years away, but should be large enough to check if Einstein got his equations right."

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  1. Re:INbeforeSpam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I'm pretty sure that some /. contributor already has a picture of that "ring of matter around the supermassive black hole" and is eager to share it with us.

  2. Oh, Einstein. by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will people ever stop checking your equations?

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  3. Oh Noes! by fazil · · Score: 2, Funny

    Divide by ZERO!

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  4. Liberate tutemae ex inferis! by bazald · · Score: 4, Funny

    Liberate tutemae ex inferis!!!

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  5. Re:INbeforeSpam by idbeholda · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't see why they're building such a telescope, because where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

  6. Oh, /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    All these posts in a story about a "black hole" and not one goatse link?

    1. Re:Oh, /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Be patient grasshopper.

  7. Re:INbeforeSpam by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Funny

    telescope looking at a blockhole

    Holy crap! It's the lesser known cubic blockhole ... much more sneaky and secretive than blackholes.

    I spell goodly! :-P

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