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

The central parts of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, as observed in the near-infrared with the NACO instrument on European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope. By following the motions of the most central stars over more than 16 years, astronomers were able to determine the mass of the supermassive black hole that lurks there.

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Science & Technology

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• Milky Way
• ESO
• Black Hole
• Telescope
• Galaxy

[bakerXderek]

@ernadmahmic you killed it so fucking bad 

[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

[MrCriticOfAll]

@DeePhlat Now thats interesting.

[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.

[brenbiancalana]

And cue Muse's Super Massive Black Hole song

[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.

[stmk0]

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

[nullpointer66]

are those sperms?..ohhh sorry my bad

[scramignon]

Are you insane???

[SkunkHunt]

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