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The Black Hole Party

The very idea of black hole is baffling and scary at the same time. Many scientists have dedicated their lives for studying these scary things. Why scary? C’mon let’s be honest.   Getting sucked by a black hole due to its strong gravitational field means instant death. Although we still don’t know what exactly will happen if a human being falls in the black hole , we have drawn our conclusions based on what it does to light. That’s why; it may sound even scarier when we learned that scientists have discovered a dozen of black holes teaming up at the center of our galaxy-Milky way.   Data from NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-ray observatory has allowed researchers to detect a group of black holes surrounding Sagittarius A*. Sagittarius A* is a super massive black hole at the center of Milky Way-that’s where we are. For a while now, scientists have believed that there is something at this place and now it’s confirmed! Based on the findings,   up to 10,000 black h...

Event Horizon Telescope

Black holes have always been a mystery to many. Many scientists have dedicated their lives for the study of black holes. Although till date, we still don’t have an actual picture of a Black hole; scientists are trying to get a closer look at it. And with advancements in the field of technology, soon we’ll be able to see an actual picture of a black hole. How is it possible? Let’s see. Event Horizon Telescope is a project which has been started to study the event horizon of the black hole -Sagittarius A* which is situated in our galaxy. It will capture the pictures of the event horizon and send it back to Earth.   Before going into detail of this project, first let’s see what an Event Horizon is. Event Horizon: Event horizon is a boundary in space-time, beyond which the events cannot affect the outside observer. Simply put, it is the boundary of no returns. It is the boundary of the black hole, beyond which events are not affected by the space time and once in this...