Thu. 05/12 - 1st Image of Milky Way Black Hole & 1st Taco Bell TikTok Musical, Equally Important Events
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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | it's thursday may 12th 2020 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Everything you need to know about the |
| 0:42.9 | just-released first-ever image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Plus, is there |
| 0:49.7 | sight after death? No, but kind of. And in the most predictable news of the day, |
| 0:58.1 | Dolly Parton is starring in a Doja Cat-inspired Taco Bell TikTok musical about Mexican pizza. |
| 1:04.2 | Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. |
| 1:09.4 | Remember earlier this month when I told you to keep an eye out for big space news on May 12th from the Event Horizon Telescope team? |
| 1:17.4 | Well, this morning they made their big announcement, and it is indeed pretty cool. |
| 1:22.2 | The Event Horizon Telescope, or E.HT, has the first-ever image of Sagittarius A-Star, or |
| 1:29.2 | SAG-A-Star, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. |
| 1:34.5 | Now, as a reminder, the E.HT team is the same international team that took the first-ever |
| 1:39.4 | image of a black hole in general, specifically a black hole in the Messier 87 or M87 galaxy in the |
| 1:46.4 | constellation Virgo back in 2019. This new image of our galaxy's own black hole honestly |
| 1:53.0 | just looks like a blurry glowing donut, but like a lot of images from space, it becomes pretty |
| 1:58.9 | mind-blowing once you know the whole context. |
| 2:01.9 | So, for one, while it has long been suspected that the invisible, ginormous something at the |
| 2:07.8 | center of our galaxy and around which stars orbit is a black hole, we didn't have direct |
| 2:12.5 | visual evidence until this image. Quoting the National Science Foundation, who co-hosted |
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