Authored by Jake Anderson via The Mind Unleashed blog,
Scientists believe there is a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy named Sagittarius A*. This black hole is 26,000 light-years from the Earth and approximately 4 million times the mass of the Sun.
While Sgr A* has always been thought of as a quiet, relatively modest black hole, new observations show a recent burst of unprecedented activity suggesting it is on a sudden feeding frenzy.
The observations comes from a research team at the UCLA Galactic Center Group, which published their work in Astrophysical Journal Letters. Using the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, the team gathered 13,000 images of the accretion disk area of the black hole.
The accretion disk is where enormous amounts of gas, dust, and radiation accumulate and orbit outside the “point of no return”—or the event horizon. According to their observations, there has been a sudden and “unprecedented” increase in brightness from the Sgr A* accretion disk.
The paper’s co-author, Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy, stated:
“We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole. It’s usually a pretty quiet, wimpy black hole on a diet. We don’t know what is driving this big feast.”
Scientists say the increase in brightness means the black hole is consuming more interstellar material, including stars, planets, dust, gas, and asteroids. One of the research team’s lead authors originally believed the glow was a star because Sagittarius A* had never been observed at that level of brightness.
The advanced techniques used to gather this information is perhaps one of the most noteworthy aspects of this story. The researchers employed speckle holography to extract and analyze distant information from Sgr A* during the last 24 years. Another technique, called adaptive optics, eliminates distortion from Earth’s atmosphere. Combined, researchers were able to conclude that this is the largest amount of radiation detected from our galaxy’s black hole in nearly a quarter of a century.
Mark Morris, another co-author and UCLA professor of physics and astronomy, speculated on the cause of the increase:
“The big question is whether the black hole is entering a new phase – for example if the spigot has been turned up and the rate of gas falling down the black hole ‘drain’ has increased for an extended period – or whether we have just seen the fireworks from a few unusual blobs of gas falling in.”
Scientists believe that by recording and analyzing such increases in black hole activity, they can get a better understanding of how black holes evolve and impact the development of galaxies.
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Better keep that news from Greta. She will expect us to do something to stop the black hole from devouring the earth.
Lay off Greta.
She’s a little hottie and I’m trying to set something up with her while she’s here in NYC,so please don’t get her upset or distracted
I sent her an invitation to a private screening of Silent Spring..
Not worried…
Scrabble and Beeb’s Firmament is gonna save me..
Scientists can’t tell me for certain whether or not it’s going to rain tomorrow.
Trillions of dollars gone missing…
I wonder where it goes?
Government pensions for the people who couldn’t tell you whether it is going to rain tomorrow.
Obviously, it goes into the black hole.
Black holes are fantasy. Electric universe makes more sense. Here’s your “black hole”, skip to 7:23 :
Tinker Bell , the Mikey Way doesn’t exist .Black matter doesn’t exist.
Planets don’t exist . The moon walks never happened . The moon is a self generating light. Gravity is another lie. It’s all lies
Flat earth is life changing and it’s amazing to learn this information . To know you or we have been lied to our whole lives.Kinda like when you first realize evolution is a lie we have been told all our live.
Like evolution if you don’t look for flat earth you will miss it.You want see it.
If you haven’t look at the Flat earth I highly recommend it.
Oh outer space is another lie . Nothing gets passed it through the Firmament. Check out the video Thor Smashing the Firmament .Start there.
How can anyone down vote a scientific comment?
If biological evolution is a lie, and it is; why should I believe cosmological evolution as accurate? Not logical.
Terrific video. Glad you posted it. It really underscores the absurdity of mainstream astrophysics, where mathematical models trump observational evidence. We can clearly see the same shapes that we see through our telescopes, absent any Dark Matter or other such nonsense.
When your equations need a fudge factor to balance out, you should start asking some difficult questions. When that fudge faster is 85 percent of the equation, only a fool wouldn’t question the assumptions that are a necessary part of ANY mathematical proof… a fool or someone whose paycheck relies on not questioning the assumptions.
Fucking Luddites! Black holes make perfect sense in a universe of relativity where there is strong interplay between gravity/mass and E=MC2….Einstein never found the unifying theory but made some key insights.
Think about fractal relationships…..from the atomic structure all the way out to millions of galaxies there is a symmetry that underscores the existence of the divine creator. This is a fascinating development and I just hope God is not pulling the plug in the bathtub and draining our universe to start over again!
“All of us are in the gutter but some of us are looking at the sky” Chrissie Hynde, Pretenders.
Our entire Galaxy is a dust-bunny under the bed of a nine year old. We all live in a matrix. Our real life bodies are submerged in goo to create electricity for bots. Hmmmm where have I had this same feeling before
Old news. What they are observing happened 26,000 years ago….
Yeah, I wondered about this too. The article used the present tense.
Man, I thought for sure this article was going to be about Big Mike and Barky after a 72-hour weed and coke bender.
Wrong Llpoh! Greta is helping the Democrats develop a Black Hole Credit scheme as we speak.
If my math is correct, what they are seeing took place 26,000 years ago, because it took that long for the image to reach us.
So this is where all the democrat, leftist, millennials brains went and the cause of massive uptick in activity in the black hole….now it all makes sense.