{"id":24907,"date":"2022-05-13T04:56:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T04:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24907"},"modified":"2022-05-13T04:56:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T04:56:48","slug":"the-milky-way-s-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24907","title":{"rendered":"The Milky Way s Black Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2205\/sgra_1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>There&#8217;s a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Stars are observed to orbit a very massive and compact object there known as Sgr A* (say &#8220;sadge-ay-star&#8221;). But this just released radio image (inset) from planet Earth&#8217;s Event Horizon Telescope is the first direct evidence of the Milky Way&#8217;s central black hole. As predicted by Einstein&#8217;s Theory of General Relativity, the four million solar mass black hole&#8217;s strong gravity is bending light and creating a shadow-like dark central region surrounded by a bright ring-like structure. Supporting observations made by space-based telescopes and ground-based observatories provide a wider view of the galactic center&#8217;s dynamic environment and an important context for the Event Horizon Telescope&#8217;s black hole image. The main panel image shows the X-ray data from Chandra and infrared data from Hubble. While the main panel is about 7-light years across, the Event Horizon Telescope inset image itself spans a mere 10 light-minutes at the center of our galaxy, some 27,000 light-years away. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220513.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Stars are observed to orbit a very massive and compact object there known as Sgr A* (say &#8220;sadge-ay-star&#8221;). But <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24907\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24908,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24907\/revisions\/24908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}