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Good morning RP. Today's picture collage is titled "The Galaxy, the Jet, and the Black Hole." The pictures and associated links provide a good background history on how scientists derived the first imagery of an event horizon earlier this month. The "hunt" for the black hole had been going on since 1918.
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Pretty cool- without the close ups would not have known the detail from 55 million light years away
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Powerful jets spew out of black hole
The supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy may have flared up some 2 million years ago, around the time our ancestors learned to walk Read more:...
Good Saturday morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price !!! ...and wow!!! Your "Astronomy Pictures of the Day" just get better and better!!! This one is awesome!!!
I tried to find some piece of an astronomy video that would capture what this Picture is showing, but the best I could come up with short term was this image video of another galaxy with jets and a black hole... I believe that your followers will enjoy this as part of your excellent Post!
https://youtu.be/g1aW8TDOm4A
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I tried to find some piece of an astronomy video that would capture what this Picture is showing, but the best I could come up with short term was this image video of another galaxy with jets and a black hole... I believe that your followers will enjoy this as part of your excellent Post!
https://youtu.be/g1aW8TDOm4A
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The detail is simply amazing Maj William W. 'Bill' Price!
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