"An international team of astronomers has obtained the closest views ever of what is believed to be a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The astronomers linked together radio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a virtual telescope more than 2,800 miles across that is capable of seeing details more than 1,000 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope."
"With three telescopes, the astronomers could only vaguely determine the shape of the emitting region. Future investigations will help answer the question of what, precisely, they are seeing: a glowing corona around the black hole, an orbiting 'hot spot,' or a jet of material. Nevertheless, their result represents the first time that observations have gotten down to the scale of the black hole itself, which has a 'Schwarzschild radius' of 10 million miles."
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And here I thought the "Schwarzschild radius" was distance to which that annoying neighbor kid was allowed to approach the house without me pulling out my shotgun.
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