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[DanMiller]

Rare, Missing Link Black Hole Found Lurking in The Milky Way

 

At the center of a tightly packed, spherical cluster of stars named Omega Centauri around 17,000 light-years away, astronomers have found evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole, tipping the cosmic scales at a mass equivalent to at least 8,200 Suns.

 

Ok, I  will be honest. Yea, this is interesting.  But I really only posted this because I seen star cluster.  I even pulled up Omega Centari in Stellarium  to see if I ever had or would image it.  I only it only see it peak above the horizon where I live in May.

 

Anyone ever view or image this?

 

Dan

[Tony Flanders]

Ok, I  will be honest. Yea, this is interesting.  But I really only posted this because I seen star cluster.  I even pulled up Omega Centari in Stellarium  to see if I ever had or would image it.  I only it only see it peak above the horizon where I live in May.
 
Anyone ever view or image this?

That's a bit like asking "anyone ever view or image the Andromeda Galaxy?"
 
Omega Cen is the biggest and brightest globular in our galaxy, both in absolute terms and as seen from Earth. It has been viewed and photographed as far north as Point Pele in Canada, but you need to be well south of latitude 40N to get a really good telescopic view. It's prominent to the unaided eye from southern Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California -- and along the Gulf Coast and all of Florida when the transparency allows. It is almost certainly the core of a dwarf galaxy that was cannibalized by the Milky Way.

 

There's a thread on the subject in the Science forum.

Edited by Tony Flanders, 11 July 2024 - 05:16 PM.