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Thu. 05/12 - 1st Image of Milky Way Black Hole & 1st Taco Bell TikTok Musical, Equally Important Events

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Everything you need to know about the just-released first-ever image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Plus, is there sight after death? No. But kind of. And, in the most predictable news of the day, Dolly Parton is starring in a Doja Cat-inspired Taco Bell TikTok musical about Mexican Pizza. Sponsors: The Jordan Harbinger Show, jordanharbinger.com/start  Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: We got it! Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy (National Science Foundation) The Milky Way's Black Hole Comes to Light (NY Times) Feast your eyes on the first image of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way (Ars Technica) This is the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy (MIT Technology Review) Scientists Have Revived a Glimmer of Activity in Human Eyes After Death (ScienceAlert) Light after death: scientists revive human eyes (Scripps Research) Life after death for the human eye: Vision scientists revive light-sensing cells in organ donor eyes (ScienceDaily) Dolly Parton to star in a musical on TikTok about Taco Bell's Mexican pizza (NBC News) Taco Bell is bringing back a fan-favorite menu item (CNN) Doja Cat's Mexican Pizza beat (Doja Cat, TikTok) Mexican Pizza: The Musical by Doja Cat. (Victor Kunda, TikTok) G-strings in the mist: 'You wouldn't expect Jane Goodall to be fronting a campaign for underwear' (The Guardian) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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