ESO - 16-Year Long Study Tracks Stars Orbiting Milky Way Black Hole

[ernadmahmic]

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started WAIT! lolz thumbs up if you get it

[bakerXderek]

@ernadmahmic you killed it so fucking bad

[brenbiancalana]

And cue Muse's Super Massive Black Hole song

[nullpointer66]

are those sperms?..ohhh sorry my bad

[Rooshman]

The interesting thing about this confirming observation for me is that it points to the supermassive black hole as being an integral part of the process of our galaxy forming. Also, it suggests, by virtue of it being located centre of the galaxy, that a supermassive black hole may be found at the centre of ALL spiral structured galaxies, and perhaps other structured galaxies as well. I wonder if any X-ray observations of other galaxies are possible or have been made to follow up on this idea.

[lifeworld1977]

Jesus never mentioned black holes. Therefore, they don't exist. Only sinners would engage in such idle theoretical speculation as this! If you wish to repent, then lobby against the teaching of science in public schools, and seek in its place the restitution of Biblical Hermeneutics as the foundation of the liberal arts. Praise Christ!

[Rooshman]

Congratulations. That comment just guaranteed you the championship prize for The Most Retarded Ignoramus of The Year. Your cheque is in the mail....moron.

[SkunkHunt]

Good lord you make more sense than 99% of the black hole enthusiasts.

[scramignon]

Are you insane???

[stmk0]

@lifeworld1977 Except that so far as Catholicism is concerned, you're the blasphemor. Stop trolling you fake "bible thumper."

[EddieTattoProduction]

@lifeworld1977 Here's the deal bro. I'am catholic myself. But I don't believe as you say,"Only sinners would engage in such idle theoretical speculation as this!" God in my view created everything. No he did not talk about black holes, but who created everything we know about? Most people would obviously say God, and therefore I agree with them. WHY...oh WHY would you assume bad people would study such a thing. Everything he created is meant to be here for us to find out it's marvelous wonders.

[MrCriticOfAll]

@lifeworld1977 Anyone tried to shove religion down my kids throats at school and I'd hit them over the head with a fucking shovel.HOW DARE YOU PRESS YOUR VIEWS ON ANYBODY.

[ArjenDijksman]

Awesome indeed to see those stars orbiting at the center of the Milky Way. The conclusion is however quite disconcerting, at 5:41. "We are fairly sure that there is a massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way. Next thing, we want ... to use it as a tool to test if the GR, the theory of Einstein is actually wrong or right". I thought that the existence of black holes are deduced from GR. How can we be sure that there is a black hole if we aren't sure that GR is right?

[bogieman987]

whats GR

[bogieman987]

never mind i heard hime say it lolz so what is general relativity

[ArjenDijksman]

The main idea as I understand it is that massive objects distort the geometry of space and time and accelerate nearby objects. It sets acceleration and gravity on an equal footing. There are some nice videos around here explaining it visually.

[kahnicles]

so how quickly are these stars orbiting the BH then. must be pretty darn quick if we've ben able to capture several orbits in only 16 years

and i'm surprised that S2 doesn't get torn to shreds if it passes by so close. wonder how long it's got before it gets sucked in

[adamisthereinventer]

Black holes are as interesting as they are scary.

[bogieman987]

there is so much to learn from them yet they are so dangerous and misterious

[zezimashock]

men fears what it can't see.

ironic,

black holes suck light up ;P

[bogieman987]

i agree but what i think is most mystirious is when something goes into the black like a planet or a star what happens to it, i hope youve heard of the worm hole theory, i think its like a tube what goes in comes out somewhere else or a diferant time for i read that because of the gravity and stuff time slows down/stops/speeds up near or inside it ,i am not sure lolz

[zezimashock]

actually i know that theory ;P

But this is what i think:

if somthing goes in there it becomes time less.

becouse the black hole his gravity is so stronge it sucks up time etc..

as for that somthing in side of it can move without expirencing time and it means that somethings in there move faster that light.

(becouse there is no time)

and can exist at two place's at one's,

eather in the black hole or somewhere else.

and that is how i think about black holes.

[jamnin94]

but wat is time? does time really exict? i think time was something made up by man for sheduling. if by time u mean when the sun comes up and goes down then there is no time in space anyway. idk that jus poped into my head, time is a very very strange thing in its self

[zezimashock]

I broke my head around that thing too :)

this is what I came up with ;P

time is man made.

or time is,

the movement on a molecular size

that means when a molecule stops moving there is no time.

I did not came further XD

I really broke my head about it back then.

[DeePhlat]

But quantum physicists think absolute zero cannot be reached. This is also likely due to "zero point energy" or the "vacuum state" which says there's no such things as an empty space, just particles flying in and out of existence.

[zezimashock]

quantum physicists also say you can go back in time :P

[MrCriticOfAll]

@DeePhlat Now thats interesting.

[0c4pnh4nk]

That is too fugging cool.

I subscribed cause, unlike newscientistvideo, you actually explained it.

Learning is fun!

[farvision]

Agreed!

[AmeriKidz]

This is awesome! <---I'm subscribed.