| ▲ | turtletontine a day ago | |||||||||||||||||||
The galactic center data actually proved there was a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and weighed it precisely from those stars motions. The name of the account that posted that animation (Sagittarius A*) is the name of that supermassive black hole. This work earned the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/summary/ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | dekhn a day ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
The term I would use instead is that the data provided observational support of a hypothesis. It didn't "prove" anything- proofs only exist in math. (yes, I know people use "prove" is colloquial way, but it's misleading, especially in observational work where you can't control variables to find causality. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | rpozarickij 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
When you think about it, it's so mindblowing that we humans can study and talk about these unimaginably large objects in the universe. Yet they just exist there regardless of what we do or think about them and will continue to exist way past whatever happens to our species. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ccozan a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Can you explain the past tense "there was" ? Is there a reason for a black hole to dissapear? | ||||||||||||||||||||
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