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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 14 points 2 months ago

Reads over actual paper

I'm going to take your word for it.

Given how difficult that seems to be to find that kind of visual disturbance in a place like the galactic center where things are moving relatively fast, no way is a lone black hole going to be seen anywhere outside that kind of bee swarm of stars. But there certainly must be a lot of them, no reason to think there aren't.

[–] Balthazar@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Note that you can't see the black hole in this image (an optical HST image). The black hole was identified through microlensing of the object labeled "source", followed by subsequent astrometric observations. The black hole is the lens, which is not seen in these images because it's too faint.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

STOP LOOKING AT MY SOUUUUULLLLLLLL

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"Frank, are you saying 'soul' or 'hole'?"

[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to be Ernest with you, I was telling you not to look at my black hole.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Aren't you supposed to be saving a summer camp, or Santa?