SBS Now : Black Holes Special

[Kunama]

Starting now on SBS Doco on Black Holes

Edit: Oops, already noted

[Ric]

Hi Matt

I caught the last half of that show, what I saw was very interesting.

[Astro_Bot]

It's available through SBS On Demand if you missed it:

Swallowed by a Black Hole

[Robert9 (Robert)]

Interesting, but...very poor, dreary presentation. Put me to sleep at times.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

I thought the real video of stars moving around the black hole was incredible!

[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

Crap I wanted to see this! Only saw about 20 minutes then I fell asleep.

[Brian3. (Brian)]

The passage of material into the black hole will be very interesting. "Time" or more correctly the rate at which it occurs relative to our time is where I believe the discovery lurks. The extreme gravity energy density must slow the "rate of time" according to my construct of space, but perhaps only in a plain at right angles to a radius vector???
Whatever the results expect "peculiarity from the singularity!"
Brian3.

[TrevorW]

A was singularly disappointed

[mr bruess]

things will get very interesting once the G2 gas cloud comes near the black hole and bits of it will start tumbling into the black hole.
the g2 gas cloud is three times the size of our planet has strayed within the gravitational reach of the Sagittarius supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way galaxy.
Scientists will watch it feast on g2 and will see the effects of it.
This is one of the most exciting events to occur in astronomy since the comet shoemaker levy crash into Jupiter in 1994.