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Chandra zooms in on our galaxy's heart

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This animation zooms in on the centre of the Milky Way using images taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. It ends with an artist's conception of the galaxy's central black hole, Sgr A*, and a disc of matter that undergoes a flare as it falls into the hole (Courtesy of NASA/CXC)
More: http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13193

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  • low quality youtube video doesn't do those images justice at all.

  • oh man that was a beautiful series of shots...amazing what's out there that we can't even see in our own spectrum of visible light! Even more impressive was the animation of something we have no way of determining a shape or color too since all forms of radiation get sucked in or just block it from view as it's spewed out in a blinding super heated gaseous form. Sick and mind blowing stuff right here...

    when you see it, you'll shit bricks XD

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  • I don't know still looks like plasma to me and nothing more!

  • true true, at least there is someeone on youtube that is not slow, thanks.

  • yeah the black hole in the middle will suck your ship up unless you somehow made something that could get there and survive.

  • it said "artist's concept" under the video you nub

  • some of you are idiots, of course you cant see a black hole the name says it its black! it blends in, the gravitational effect it hs on things around it lets u know if it is a blackhole, also before anybody makes to the center of the galaxy there ships will burn up too many stars near each other and the black hole will tear it apart!

  • of course its fake you idiot, nobody has BEEN to the center of the galaxy... yet

  • fake

  • I have become more and more tilted towards the electric theory, because I know stuff about electricity and the "marbles" ideas never really sat well anyway, because they are too paradoxal and disputable.. It is sort of astonishing how "scientists" can shut the door on self-evident thing just because they, well, don't understand, or it doesn't fit their bias, or they fear for their sponsorships.. ;P

  • ItLingers.. observing

    Hunab-Ku!

  • I've just read up on the electric universe - it's very interesting and provides a very good alternative to the current models. I just hope they are going to investigate it further. There seems to be one or two heavy debates going on in the "bad astronomy forum."

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