For the first time, astronomers watch a black hole 'wake up' in real-time (www.popsci.com)
from cm0002@lemmy.world to astronomy@mander.xyz on 15 Apr 03:28
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doug@lemmy.today on 15 Apr 04:02 next collapse

Oh my goodness. That is the cutest black hole in here. And he’s comin’ this way, oooooooooooooooooh!

SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net on 15 Apr 04:47 collapse

Are the tracking systems for those massive telescopes sophisticated enough to track objects by designation, or do they still require coordinates? Like I know they have tracking for earths rotation but I can’t even imagine needing to look up the info to set sights on some body for the allotted view time, however many days that would be done for (I assume it’s a set of long precise numbers, far too long to easily memorize)

p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Apr 13:33 collapse