Given how difficult that seems to be to find that kind of visual disturbance in a place like the galactic center where things are moving relatively fast, no way is a lone black hole going to be seen anywhere outside that kind of bee swarm of stars. But there certainly must be a lot of them, no reason to think there aren't.

[–] Balthazar@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Note that you can't see the black hole in this image (an optical HST image). The black hole was identified through microlensing of the object labeled "source", followed by subsequent astrometric observations. The black hole is the lens, which is not seen in these images because it's too faint.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

STOP LOOKING AT MY SOUUUUULLLLLLLL

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"Frank, are you saying 'soul' or 'hole'?"

[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to be Ernest with you, I was telling you not to look at my black hole.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Aren't you supposed to be saving a summer camp, or Santa?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It sucked, that's why it's alone now.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

It's fucking dense.