Black Hole Swarms | Space Time
It's been conjectured that the center of the Milky Way is swarming with tens of thousands of black holes. And now we've actually seen them. You can further ...
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Thanks to CuriosityStream for supporting PBS Digital Studios. It’s been conjectured that the center of the Milky Way contains not one but a vast swarm of black holes. And now we’ve actually seen them. The core of our galaxy is a wild place. The stars are so densely packed that the night sky would be 500 times brighter than our own. A supermassive black hole, 4 million times the mass of our Sun lurks in the center. It flings nearby stars into extreme slingshot orbits. It consumes anything that gets too close, burping a blast of X-rays. We know these things because we see them from our comfortable vantage point 28,000 light years out in the galactic disk. But there’s one particularly terrible feature of the core that has only been has only be hypothesized until now: The central few l...
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Thanks to CuriosityStream for supporting PBS Digital Studios. It’s been conjectured that the center of the Milky Way contains not one but a vast swarm of black holes. And now we’ve actually seen them. The core of our galaxy is a wild place. The stars are so densely packed that the night sky would be 500 times brighter than our own. A supermassive black hole, 4 million times the mass of our Sun lurks in the center. It flings nearby stars into extreme slingshot orbits. It consumes anything that gets too close, burping a blast of X-rays. We know these things because we see them from our comfortable vantage point 28,000 light years out in the galactic disk. But there’s one particularly terrible feature of the core that has only been has only be hypothesized until now: The central few l...
