Something Different - Black Holes at the Heart of our Galaxy

I think it was Star Wars (1977) and the ongoing halo effect from the moon landings that did it for me.

I love outer space.

When 'A Brief History of Time' was published in 1988 I devoured it as a teenager. A book that wrote about the origins of our universe, the mystery of outer space, and delved in to the mystery of black holes?  Awesome!

So I keep an eye out for stories in this realm.  Please forgive the deviation from the normal tech and digital/retail stories but I think this is great stuff that you might enjoy too.

Generally the way it works is the study of Physics is broken in to two groups: theoretical physics tries to explain the universe, experimental physics tries to test the theories.  There is always a huge lag from the theory to the testing as setting up these tests can be a massive, expensive, and very time-consuming affair.  This effort needed a minimum of a couple decades of accumulated data to test work the long-deceased Albert Einstein put forth.

Wow!

Here is the full story:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/science/black-hole-milky-way.html

Here is a snippet from the piece:

For the last two decades, two rival teams of astronomers, looking to test some of Albert Einstein’s weirdest predictions about the universe, have aimed their telescopes at the star, which lies 26,000 light-years away. In the process, they hope to confirm the existence of what astronomers strongly suspect lies just beyond: a monstrous black hole, an eater of stars and shaper of galaxies.

Happy Reading,

J.W. Gant