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NASA Found Something, But Isn't Saying What

Posted by Matt Butrovich | May. 08, 2008 11:21AM PST | 4044 views | 2 comments

FILED UNDER: News. Science.

NASA sent out a media advisory today, announcing a press conference for next Wednesday, May 14. What's the purpose of the press conference? NASA is being rather coy about the whole ordeal, but according to them it's to "announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations."

What does that mean? What could it be? We'll have to wait to find out, but based on the kind of research the Chandra X-ray Observatory performs, my guess is that they've found direct evidence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. What are your thoughts?

(Source: NASA)

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trick153 said
May 09, 2008 08:18 AM | Hide Comment | Collapse Thread
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I think it's either water on Mars or dark matter.

mrhassell said
May 09, 2008 07:40 PM | Hide Comment | Collapse Thread
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"The detected object appears to be an intermediate mass black hole, packing about 1,300 solar masses."

This is taken from an article in 2004.. I hardly think that it is news that we have a single black hole at the center of the Milky Way, from last news they had discovered 3 "small, medium, large" sized black hole's and you will never guess where... yes you guessed it, right in the center of the Milky Way!

Jean-Pierre Maillard is the man most authourative on the subject, perhaps a google before posting in the future?

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