So… that supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy? It’s inactive, and has been for a long time. Scientists wondered just how long it’s been inactive, and now they have an idea…
It ate it’s last meal about 6 million years ago.
And here’s the image (as usual, click on the image for the hi-res tif file):
Quasar’s Light Yields Clues to Outflow
How nice to have a patriotic galactic center.
Except … it’s French-patriotic!!1!
Coincidentally, today I happened to read about the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which is a VLBI project to image the shadow of said black hole, Edge of darkness: looking into the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.
Very cool discovery and galactic event. Shared. Cheers! 🙂