Black Hole at the Galactic Core

An animation put together using data collected by astronomers all over the world to examine the surroundings of the Black Hole suspected to be present at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. Credit to Andrew J. Hanson of the University of Indiana. Source- http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~hanson/

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[stargen5]

Nonsense! You don't know what you are talking about. Earth is carried by a big bearded man in toga...and he stands on a big turtle, and so on downwards...with many many monsters...

[nevermore1000]

Great video.

[MrMrShobear]

Who searched the following key words "galactic core" after playing a certain sequence in mass effect 2

lol <3

[minecraftaltair]

@stargen5 wha....?

[adam11mpls]

@CircusofPython Shepard blew it up.

[adam11mpls]

@PaulXPZ Gotta be careful of those Reapers......

[PaulXPZ]

@CircusofPython yeah and there's also a dodgy mass relay around, be sure to have that IFF handy if you want to go sightseeing...

[CircusofPython]

Isn't there also the Collector Base at the Galactic Core?

[CyberPhyco398]

If they think that we will eventually spiral into the "black hole" in the core, then I estimate it would atleast take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000­,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to get there. So...Yeah.

[2011FindTheTruth]

@GalacticKitten

There might be some evidence to support them, but it has not come close to actually being proven. Many scientists support the idea that a "black hole" is a really heavy condensed star that has collapsed into tiny dense matter at the bottom of the well (the singularity I guess).

[GalacticKitten]

@fabbio8888 if we were to replace the sun with a black hole of the same mass, our orbit wouldn't change. So the only distortions that are seen are the gravitationally bent light rays from objects behind them.

[GalacticKitten]

@2011FindTheTruth it's no mistake! There is a lot of evidence to support them, and they have been indirectly imaged, like the one shown here. Also, we can see disks of matter that are falling into stellar mass black holes. While they are a seemingly impossible existence, we have enough evidence to back it.