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Stars orbiting the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way

1.5M views · Jul 26, 2018 · 0:20 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2018–2024

A time-lapse from ESO's Very Large Telescope showing stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center over nearly 20 years.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN links it as direct observational evidence for a massive invisible object at the galactic center.

“here is a time lapse video of stars orbiting Sag A”HN comment, 2019

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Cites itTeMPOraLOct 2018

“stars orbiting something that's a) very massive, and b) invisible”

Footage of stars orbiting an invisible massive object at the galactic center.

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Then there's this video ESO's Very Large Telescope shot[0], of stars orbiting something that's a) very massive, and b) invisible. Does that constitute a direct observation of a black hole? -- [0] - this video

in “Black holes ruled out as universe’s missing dark matter” · view on HN
Cites itcilefenFeb 2019

“here is a time lapse video of stars orbiting Sag A”

Time lapse of stars orbiting Sagittarius A*.

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No actual photos yet exist of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole. But here is a time lapse video of stars orbiting Sag A: this video . The Event Horizon Telescope project is trying to image some black hole surroundings link

in “How Supermassive Black Holes Were Discovered” · view on HN
Cites itwesturnerNov 2024

Cited as an actual observation of black hole surroundings.

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"static" is "Shwarzchild without rotation"? Do black holes have hair? Where is the Hawking radiation in these models? Does it diffuse through the boundary and the outer system? What about black hole jets? What about vortices? With Gross-Pitaevskii and SQR Superfluid Quantum Relativity link Ctrl-F Fedi , Bernoulli, Gross-Pitaevskii: > "Gravity as a fluid dynamic phenomenon in a superfluid quantum space. Fluid quantum gravity and relativity." (2015) link : > FWIU: also rejects a hard singularity boundary, describes curl and vorticity in fluids (with Gross-Pitaevskii,), and rejects antimatter. Actual observations of black holes; "This image shows the observed image of M87's black hole (left) the simulation obtained with a General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics model, blurred to the resolution of the Event Horizon Telescope [...]" link "Stars orbiting the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way" ESO. this video "Motion of stars around Sagittarius A*" Keck/UCLA. link /? M87a time lapse /? Sagittarius A time lapse /? black hole vortex dynamics

in “Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera” · view on HN