LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese scientists said on Wednesday they had gathered evidence that shows a giant object in the center of our galaxy is a super-massive black hole.
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Zhi-Qiang Shen and researchers at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory captured radio waves emitted just beyond the edge of the mysterious object, known as Sagittarius A, with a system of 10 radio telescopes spread across the United States.
In a report in the science journal Nature they said it "provides strong evidence that Sgr A is a super-massive black hole."
The celestial objects that suck in everything around them including light are among the most mysterious objects in the universe. They are formed when matter from a dying star collapses under its own gravity.
Black holes have been described as the ultimate victory over gravity because of their ability to suck in stars and other galactic features.
Scientists have long suspected the presence of a black hole in the center of the Galaxy. Astronomers believe it is four million times more massive than our Sun.
The research reported in Nature suggests the black hole is as wide as the radius of the Earth's orbit.
"These observations provide strong evidence that Sgr A is indeed a black hole, and afford a glimpse of the behavior of the matter that is about to flow into it," said Christopher Reynolds, of the University of Maryland in the United States, in a commentary in the journal.
He described the findings as a further step toward capturing an image of the shadow around the edge of a black hole, which would be a classic test of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.
The theory predicts that massive bodies -- planets, stars or black holes -- actually twist time and space around as they spin.
If you look at galaxies far away they all seem to be attracted to and swirl around something in the middle of them.
I wonder if each galaxie has it's own 'tether' black hole? To keep each galaxies contents from flying out into others area of space?
Hmmm, ID Indeed.
Edit: Since we theorize that gravity has a profound effect on time, just imagine the math that must be involved with Gods creation! Boggles my mind
Isa 55:8-9
8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.
9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
IRQ Conflict wrote:If you look at galaxies far away they all seem to be attracted to and swirl around something in the middle of them.
I wonder if each galaxie has it's own 'tether' black hole? To keep each galaxies contents from flying out into others area of space?
Hmmm, ID Indeed.
Edit: Since we theorize that gravity has a profound effect on time, just imagine the math that must be involved with Gods creation! Boggles my mind
Isa 55:8-9
8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.
9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Anywhere sufficient mass gathers a black hole is thought to form.
It is not length of life, but depth of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
IRQ Conflict wrote:If you look at galaxies far away they all seem to be attracted to and swirl around something in the middle of them.
I wonder if each galaxie has it's own 'tether' black hole? To keep each galaxies contents from flying out into others area of space?
Hmmm, ID Indeed.
Edit: Since we theorize that gravity has a profound effect on time, just imagine the math that must be involved with Gods creation! Boggles my mind
Isa 55:8-9
8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.
9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Anywhere sufficient mass gathers a black hole is thought to form.
So if a bunch of fat people gather together one day, the world is doomed...
"My actions prove that God takes care of idiots."
He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
- On Stanley Baldwin
-Winston Churchill
An atheist can't find God for the same reason a criminal can't find a police officer.
You need to start asking out girls so that you can get used to the rejections.
-Anonymous
I thought Bgood wanted to attend the family reunion for some reason...
Acts 17:24-25 (NIV)
"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. [25] And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else."
