arstechnica , 8 days ago Supermassive black hole roars to life as astronomers watch in real time A similar awakening may one day occur with the Milky Way's supermassive black hole https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/supermassive-black-hole-roars-to-life-as-astronomers-watch-in-real-time/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Supermassive black hole roars to life as astronomers watch in real time
A similar awakening may one day occur with the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/supermassive-black-hole-roars-to-life-as-astronomers-watch-in-real-time/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
timepencil , 8 days ago @arstechnica Oh, dear. More inaccurate reporting from Ars Technica... "astronomers watch in real time". No astronomer has ever seen anything happen in "real time." The universe has the worst latency in... well... the universe! Even observations of the moon are, on average, delayed by 1.28 seconds. That said, I do appreciate that astronomers usually need to make their observations from a safe distance!
@arstechnica Oh, dear. More inaccurate reporting from Ars Technica... "astronomers watch in real time".
No astronomer has ever seen anything happen in "real time." The universe has the worst latency in... well... the universe!
Even observations of the moon are, on average, delayed by 1.28 seconds.
That said, I do appreciate that astronomers usually need to make their observations from a safe distance!