New technology reveals clandestine astronomical body

Saturday, 12 January 2008 01:47

UCLA Astronomy & Astrophysics professor Andrea Ghez presents “Bringing Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole and its Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics” to professors, graduate students, and all other scholars interested in the mystery dominating the Milky Way center.

R_s = 2GM/C²

R_s = Schwarschild radius (meters) of massive object

C = speed of light (m/sec)

M = mass of astronomical body

* Black hole warping spacetime

** Movement of stars around Sagittarius A (Sgr A*), the black hole at the Milky Way center  

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Images retrieved from:

*  http://www.srl.caltech.edu/lisa/graphics/.browseimages/sgr_a-jpg-browse-indexicon.jpg

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Written by Amy Ta