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  • OmG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG THERE IS A SUPER MASSIVE BLACK HOLE IN THE CENTER OF OUR MILKY WAY GALAXY BUT IT IS HELPING US HOLDING THE STARS I THING THAT BLACK HOLE IS A GOOD BOY BUT OMG IT IS STILL YOUNG OMG

  • There is a force "infinitely" more powerful than the puny gravity, anyone know what it is? It is demonstrated on the sun all the time... Gravity really has not much of a say compared to it. It makes the mathematical construct of "black holes" unecessary and silly.. and a lot of other stuff too.

  • thats some crazy gravity whipping that one star around

  • incredible!

  • The stars are orbiting the black hole isn't? Imagine the velocity them!!

  • WOW !! And i don't knew that we could see something like it! Great!

  • Wtf...How Did That Star Get Away?

    i Tough that The Supermasive Black Hole Had A Incredible Mass And Shit ..And Some Star Just Went ...

    ooooooooooooo00000000000 SHit!!!! And Again oooooooo00000SHit And Again....What The Fuck?

  • The mass of the black hole caused it to go so fast that it could escape.

  • @photon101203 it slingshotted around it, like Apollo 13 did with the moon.....entered partial orbit and got flung out

  • ths is scary...gotta start fucking ppeople beforei die

  • Event Horizon...... Einstein proved that if we are actually able to witness a black hole.... The light between it and us will be sucked in and we will also be sucked in as we are in the same space/time as that light......so, dont ever look directly at a black hole without special viewing lenses. You can get em on E-Bay for 3 easy payments of 4,638,000$ each. With each purchase you get an instructional video and some nice raisin cookies from WW2. Enjoy!! :D

  • Wish I'd read that before looking at this vid. Now I'm doomed to spiral in to it coz I've seen it.

    Remember people, always check e bay before looking at things. ;-)

  • Do you think I would be ok if I just turned off all the lights in my house ?

  • Good call...but since the event horizon exists wouldnt that mean that the stars moving behind or into the black hole not have been about to see?

  • lol your goofy willy!  haa

  • Might've been easier to just take charts and render this or make it in after-effects. It doesn't seem like a fluid transition between each still. Excellent idea, nonetheless. 5 stars.

    TPJ

  • lol

  • What presumed to be the source of what appears to be gravitational lensing in the center of the image?

  • the supermassive blackhole at the center of the galaxy im guessing?

  • Oh how cute no black hole? just stars acting just like plasma which they are. What a surprise! But I am sure there is some type of a magical physical construct of mathematics (like dark mater or extra dimensions) that explains this ignoring the simple explanation of electric cosmology. When CERN comes up empty handed the only place to turn will be electric cosmology.

  • we have fertilisation

  • omfg, thats a superb vid!!!!

    See how stars orbit a little up and left from the center? They are elliptically orbiting around an invisible object- a black hole. And we see a blink in about that place, maybe a flash of falling matter from a passing star!

  • Kinda looks like Human Sperm.

    Makes you think...

  • LOL

  • I don't believe this video because how exactly would you see through that cloud that surrounds the center ? "ok" put it this way ! in this video you can see stars(or what ever it is) going round and round ! if there was a black hole then there's no way you could see it because there will be no escaping light for us to see ! ok , not only you would have to see through a cloud but you would also have to see the light from the black hole ! I would love to get this technology.. Ya Think ?

  • "how exactly would you see through that cloud that surrounds the center ?"

    Infra red light passes right through the dust.

  • the stars you see are not trapped by the black holes, mearly slingshotting around them... light can escape a black holes gravity right up until it is acctually on the event horizon. this is the definition of the event horizon... the black holes gravitational effect extends well beyond the event horizon

  • it's so crazy this is out there!!, one day you'll be eating oodles and noodles, and the next second, YOU will be oodles and noodles....poetic really

  • Holy shit! You just blew my mind. Your so right.

  • I know... lol

  • so neat!

  • Man..That is so neat!

  • odly looks like cell replicating O.o

  • That looks like S2 (in sagitarrius) in the middle-upper-right. that would put the black hole slightly off-center in this video. correct?

    by the way, if you told me this was video of bacteria in a petri dish, I'd believe it. Amazing how the motion of these stars looks almost organic from a distance.

  • The galaxy being held together is the proof the accelleration therom is also bunk, why would it accellerate?

    -- You are confusing the issue. The galaxy isn't expanding, the universe is. Those two words aren't interchangeable. Galaxies are moving away from other galaxies, because gravity is very weak and grows weaker at greater distances. It has no power to hold in something that is far away. Once two galaxies are pushed far enough apart by the power of the big bang they don't attract eachother.

  • "I am saying, for that to be a reality, we would need to be, once again placed o nthe pedistal, at the center of the universe."

    --

    That is a complete misinterpretation of the data, and the facts. Like I have said, not all things are equidistant from us, they are all just accelerating away from us. Like a cue ball hitting the rack, all the balls accelerate away from the cue ball, but is in the center of those balls? No. You're ignoring an entire wealth of data on that silly argument?

  • You gotta wonder how much of this video is artifact and how much is genuine phenomena. What are all the white wisps around the stars?

  • Slacker Slayer Did you have a response for the information I supplied you about the variability of light speed? You presented your questions ,"Can light change speed? Yes. What can affect it so? " as if were some mystery. I am wondering, how does my information "light speed is only a constant 186,000 mph in a vacuum" affect the mysteriousness(osity?) of your mystery?

  • "That idea of the expanding universe as galaxies are being held together. Forget about some formula of gravities strengths over distance, he made the statement which is in total error and each galaxy shows that."

    --

    So, you're response can be summarized as: ignore that crucial point about gravity and he's wrong! But if you pay attention to the forces of nature (probably should) then what we see makes perfect sense. Massive bodies attract mass but only at a short range so distance is crucial.

  • "Objects which are deemed to be of an equal distance from US have a simialr amount of red shift. Does that clarify what I said for you?"

    --

    I guess my answer is no. I perfectly understood what you said before, so it can't really be clarified for me.

    You said that we are the center of the universe because all things are equidistant. Now you are saying that all things that are equidistant are equidistant (true but pointless). I was saying the red shift is a measure of acceleration.

  • "Can light change speed? Yes. What can affect it so?"

    --

    The answer to that is "everything that is not nothing."

    In other words everything that is not a vacuum. Light speed is a constant 186,000 mph...in a vacuum. When it's not in a vacuum it travels slower.

    --

    "That red shift being EQUAL in eqidistant objects in...shows me we are still the center of the universe..."

    The whole point of the red shift is to show acceleration not distance. Things are accelerating from us not equidistant from us.

  • Read the wiki on Doppler effect (red shift is a Doppler effect) it says it there in the first two sentences.

  • "Learn some logic."

    --

    There was no logical errors in his statement. You might say there is an unstated major premise of how gravity works (falls of by the square of its distance) but that's an assumed knowledge in a conversation on astrophysics.

    On a personal note, I think you should stick to insulting the logic of people who actually make logical gaffes.

  • The problem with explaining the galzy as a big play plate, is in which dimensions is it flat? Which directions? Are we up, down, left, right? Conventional movement and direction are only good enough when dealing with North and South, much like you referencing Earth's equator. It's a different ball game, with entirely different rules. It's out of our court. We'll see what happens. As for myself, I am stocking for the apocalypse. I for one welcome our new cockroach overlords.

  • If it is a the heart of the milky way, they are probably orbiting a supermassive black hole, in other word's a few sugar granulates orbiting a vagina with a sucktion force. (last part i was messing about)

  • i believe that dark energy is something u should read a book or ask a professional for =P. By the way im curious, where did u get this theory from?

  • ok thats a theory and thats great. I believe in a different theory and thats ok too so u dont need to contradict everything just cuz u dont like it

  • That's amazing... I've always wondered why we never see footage like this... We read about orbits being tracked, sunspot motion on distant stars being observed, novas being seen, but we never get to see for ourselves any time lapse video showing these sorts of details... This is the first time I've ever seen anything like this....

  • slackerslayer..you should read more books...and stop imagining that all others have been misled except for youself...you are challenging tested scientific theory with only words and ideas that you came up with while you were taking a crap..bring on some proof and evidence...we are talking science here

  • I have a question.On December 21 2012 for the first time in 25,000 years the planets will align in such a way as to bring the Earth to the center of the galaxy.This has nothing to do with doomsday prophechies it's a fact.What effect will the black hole have on our planet

  • sorry tech your facts are very wrong. Actually your post is idiotic.

  • "sorry tech your facts are very wrong. Actually your post is idiotic."

    --

    A claim made without support can be ignored just as easily. Next time if you explain to a person what they said was wrong, maybe they will listen to you. This guy probably just blew you off as an asshole because you didn't say anything helpful or present any counterclaims to his information.

  • the entire solar system will slightly move closer to the Galactic Center. Its not only the Earth and its not going to bring it to the very center, but CLOSER, with the WHOLE Solar system. It wont be the black hole that will have an effect on the planets but the energy streams that flow at that area. You should have asked that one

  • so what do u believe if not the fact that dark energy exists and gravity causes objects to pull toward each other?

  • HAHAHAHAHA like that comment.

  • That almost looks like cell like movement.

    When are we gonna realise we are but small fish in an infinite.

  • They could rename this video 'SlackerSlayer fail'

  • It's like watching the heart beat of a giant too huge to imagine. Simply Beautiful...

  • slacker, go away and stop ranting against commonly known science. Idiot

  • CCP noob is right on this. Slacker learn before you speak, I am taking a Masters in astronomy and IT, he does know what he is saying although its not very eliquint.

  • No its a constant fight between dark energy and matter. In close objects such as a solar system or galactic clusters currently gravity wins out, in between galaxies and or galactic cluesters dark energy wins. Andromeda and milky way are very close together for galaxies. Learn some science.

  • you are a moron, first dont call me son. When there is more space there is more dark energy. Dark energy creates expansion of said space. Area with less gravity and more dark energy expand faster idiot. Nearly all space is expanding away except for tight clusters such as milky way and andromeda galaxies. We are talking about the whole universe not little specks in it like were we are. Learn astronmy idiot.

  • "Area with less gravity and more dark energy expand faster idiot." ROFLMFAO, funny (though I know you weren't trying to, which makes it even more comical)

    I love it when people explain some technical jargon they spent a lot of time studing to someone who hasn't and then calls them an idiot for not understanding...

    Do you know how to pick the right edible clay to cure stomach pains? Your ancesters did (not a hypothetical; there is clay that can treat the stomach and they did know)... idiot ^.^

  • well thats because there are more space inbetween some objects. more space = well more space = more dark energy = faster expansion,

  • Not sure would you like to quote or link your sources for the info?

  • looks like sperms, lol

  • I'll admit it. I have no clue what I am looking at :P

  • Cool. Can't wait to get close up pictures of Andromeda crashing into the Milky Way. It's only 4 billion years from now but time does fly...

  • no slacker - all space is expanding no mattere where you are in the universe It looks like space is expanding away from you.

    The space inbetween the stars is itself expanding creating red shift in all directions.

  • what woz around the thing that caused the big bang any1 no ???

  • Hmm notice how it seperates from the middle, in theory wouldn't it have to expand more on one side than the other if the big bang was correct? Since the explosion happened from one point it would be larger on one side.

  • Read the information on the top: "The individual images have been shifted and stretched to the same scale and orientation "

  • big bang?

    What has that got to do with the motion of stars in the centre of our galaxy?

  • well if you didn't know the big bang "created" the universe, and guess what, the milky way is part of the universe :O what a shock.

    and if the big bang was what created it then the universe would be expanding outward as the big bang occured in one spot. Which eventualy it will over extend and every molecule will rip in half. (also known as the big rip)

  • Oh Ok, so the universe created itself, and everything in it? And what about all of those galaxies going in directions that makes the Big Bang unrealistic?

  • Well i believe that there has been multiple big bangs. Maybe thousands or millions. It explodes rips then eventualys compacts back together.

  • What about accelerated expansion?

  • Scientists dont actually know if the universe will expand forever. One theory says it will, another says it will go into a "Big Crunch". We dont know for sure since we dont know the amount and power of the dark matter and energy.

  • Yeah, we don't even know what the hell dark energy is. I was just providing a point that casts doubt on the cyclical universe hypothesis.

  • isn't that just a theory? A series of "little bangs?"

  • My theory :)

    i don't realy know the facts or anything i was just thinking about it one day in the shower LOL. Never heard anything from scientists though

  • wait. 1) i said i believe there has been multiple big bangs. i meant i believe there may have been multiple big bangs.

    2) 90% of science is made of theorys

  • Nice find though.... some people only accept direct observation as acceptable facts.

  • The numbers don't add up, something is wrong in the text/info box.

    The sequence is shown repeated 5 times in 12 secs.

    So, the event shown is 2.4 secs long.

    Multiply that by the suggested 32million times sped up = 2.43 years.

  • Compare 2.43 years to the suggested elapsed time 16 years and ya see what I mean.

  • its great to see people finally questioning these things.we all have our own ideas and if we had the equiptment we could produce our own renditions of these things.people are cool.

  • it would be nice if we could find 1 other planet with intelligent life in our galaxy maybe they could save up from the ugly system we are all slaves to,

  • jake 1722

    One other planet with intelligent life? Im still not convinced theres intelligent life on this one.

  • You were able to formulate a sentence weren't you? Thats a sign of intelligent life if you ask me. Please be more clear what you mean? There are a strong number of total imbeciles but ALL people cannot be summed up that easily. To say your very species is dumb is astonishing.

  • First of all, I would appreciate it if you didnt refer the human race as my species.

    And second the human race is just starting to learn. There are many species out there that are hundreds of thousands of earth years more advanced than humans. In that comparison humans have barely begun to scratch the surface.

    The truth will come soon enough.

  • i bet aliens are making comedy shows about humans.

  • soo true haha I dont know if im looking at stars orbiting the milky way or an ultrasound of a child who swallowed some marbles

  • you might be right.

  • Yeah that's what we all hear, that the truth will come soon but how soon? We've been waiting and waiting and just for the heck of it, we waited some more but still nothing. Maybe the truth will come when we are all gone from the face of the Earth.

  • That's the problem, rather than search for answers yourselves, you have others do it for you.

  • and where did you get these facts from marco polo? thats like saying i assume this so it is true.

  • if your not human what are you, a lizard man?, lulz get a clue,

  • Yes shaggy

  • I wonder why some stars were wobbling...is that the effect of being so near the super massive black hole?

  • might be because of the magnetic fields of the stars and CMEs that coming off of it

  • I think that wobbling star starts to wobble because its clipped by the orbiting star.

  • the evidence we have of the existance of the black holes is indirect by studying how it affects the path of nearby bodies. but how do we know the size of one? i've always wondered that.

  • i dont think they do they just estimate it.

  • well they must have a method to calculate it, even estimate it, otherwise why would they even state it? its just a hunch, but i think it has something to do with the size of neutrons.

  • the nucleus of a black hole is about the size of ... hmmm everything in our solar system... squeezed down to the size of a marble... super dense ... the event horizon.. or black ball you see in movies... is energy and particles ... getting smushed down...

  • The size of a black hole is exactly proportional to its mass.

    More mass the larger the black hole.

    And the mass can be calculated by the orbits of objects about it.

  • My question is, how can in infinitely small and dense point be bigger than another infinitely small and dense point?

  • "how can in infinitely small and dense point be bigger than another infinitely small and dense point?"

    And the simple answer is that the 'size' of a black hole is measured as the diameter of the 'event horizon'.

    Anything (including light) inside the event horizon cannot escape.

  • what was that blip of light right after the two stars or body of mass. That almost had a orbital collision. Also why did it seem to look like a ripple in the pond or is it a image capture design.

  • wat teh fahk. where the black hole?

  • You can't see it for a very good reason, ITS A BLACK HOLE!!!

  • You better be trolling.

  • That was awesome. Ya gotta be science savvy to know that this short film is the result of a lot of meticulous observation.

  • !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I can see my house from here!

  • Whoa!!!

  • That looks fairly intense.............

  • A black hole not only warps the mind, it warps space-time!

  • Well put my friend, well put.

  • Hello,QUESTION IF I MAY......

    The star in the closest position moved quite rapidly, is this sped up at all?

    If not,this seems quite violent for such a large object to be moving

  • Yes, very violent. That star is S2, whose 15 year orbit virtually proves the existence of a super massive (3.7 billion suns) black hole at the center of our galaxy.

  • Well duh. *read with silly voice* "seems quite violent for such a large object to be moving".

    Thanks for that pearl of wisdom, Einstein!

  • What a dummy, just couldn't pass it up..could ya...piece of shit of my shoe,thats you

  • "Sixteen years of observations of stars around the galactic centre are assembled in this video. The real motion of the stars has been accelerated by a factor 32 million"

  • So,you don'y think over 16 years it's still quite violent......

  • I didn't say that. I just wanted to point out that is is 16 years compressed in a 12seconds video. If we were to watch this in a 24hour video sure it wouldn't look very violent.

    It is violent perhaps in our scale but in an astronomical scale I don't think it's THAT violent.

  • O.K.,yes,I suppose the speed up process could have produced the slight jerky movements rather than,it being a violent movement of the planet(star)...yes, I believe your right.

    Thanks.

  • try living on one of their planets. (if they still have any)

    time-scale shouldn't matter, but it does blow out any inaccuracy.

    if your seeing it in a 24 our video, it doesn't look violent because you're looking at it in the wrong scale.

  • I wouldn't call it wrong scale, just different scale. What looks small to us is huge to ants.

  • did you even try?

    look around more

  • yes,yes,whatever.....whoever you are.

  • wow, 16 years of footage....that's crazy

  • That is very cool

  • Offtopic indeed.... -__-'

  • people say there is god, and they don't even know anything about anything most the time.

    off topic indeed.

  • Looks like sperm.

  • That must be a really massive black hole, because those stars are moving huge distances in very short time periods. 16 years is extremely fast.

  • what are they orbiting ?

    a black hole maybe ?

  • yep, the center of the milky way, which is extremely big black hole

  • i've been there and done that

  • what am I looking at?

  • Wow... you can see the gravitational distortion

  • when god ejaculates, this is what it looks like

  • lol xD!

  • this video took 12 lightseconds to film.

    now you're smarter than anyone on earth

  • well it's interesting to know that from a distance our galaxy looks like sperm on a microscope slide

  • good one! made me laugh a bit!

  • There's a cosmic egg at the center of every galaxy.

  • You're Thinking Of The Cosmic Egg That Galactus Lived In (Marvel). XD

  • Looks like random movements to me o.o

  • That random movement actually follows a pattern, the other stars are in an orbit (possibly degrading) around the black hole. You can see that the stars are moving in one direction then thrown in another due to the nature of the orbit. Eventually the stars will be swallowed up.

  • Its UFO's

  • wht does this mean?

  • wow... that star got within 1 light day from the galactic black hole! I am so amazed we were able to see that =D go science =D

  • AWESOME.

  • we must boldly go

  • where no man's gone before!

  • How do you know that no man's gone there before?

  • Rather you than me boldly going. Unless you have factor 10,000,000 sunscreen and have the natural ability to dodge the cosmic-crap radiation that makes hiroshima look like a walk in the park... send me a postcard :p

  • , i saw

  • i conquered

  • hahah, pro! XD

  • i ate a taco.

  • I came again.

  • and I conquered.

  • but I never saw

  • stars go byebye :'o

  • very cool!

  • really interesting

  • I dont think people understand what it takes to get that 12 seconds of video..

  • hahaha, my thoughts exactly. That, my friend, is once in a life time chance ( sorta )

  • Well, seeing as how those stars were last in that position a number of light years ago, your right..

  • A light year is a measure of distance, not time.

  • "A light year is a measure of distance, not time."

    Also time. Space and time can not be separated. At the speed of light in vacuum they have the same magnitude. Time is space in SR, with a '-' sign in front of it's dot product.

  • actually a light year is the distance travled by light in one year