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turtletontine • today at 7:53 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

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/


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ccozan • today at 10:09 PM

Can you explain the past tense "there was" ? Is there a reason for a black hole to dissapear?

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