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Including the powerful ALMA into an array of telescopes for the first time, astronomers have found that the emission from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) at the center of our Galaxy comes from a smaller region than previously thought. This may indicate that a radio jet from Sgr A* is pointed almost […]
Sky News – Apr 27, 2017 Professor Heino Falcke, from Radboud University and member of the Event Horizon Telescope team, explains what a black hole is and what we can expect to see from the experiment on Sky News. Sky News YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews
Al Jazeera News: Science & Technology – 13 April 2017 Over the past week, astronomers have trained a network of telescopes around the world at a single point at the centre of our galaxy to finally catch a glimpse of a black hole. For five days, eight telescopes will point at one small spot in […]
A Person Falling Into A Black Hole Would Be Spaghettified If a person were able to survive long enough to describe the journey falling into a black hole, he/she would at first experience weightless as he/she goes into free fall, but then feel intense “tidal” gravitational forces as he/she gets closer to the black hole. […]
Department of Astrophysics,
IMAPP, Radboud University,
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Goethe University,
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