Astronomer in progress

17 years old

An astronomer in progress since the age of seven

I'm basically a talking monkey on an organic spaceship flying through the universe at the speed of around 29 km/s. Ooh ooh ah ah.

If you want to kill me, you should do that by throwing me into a supermassive black hole. The tidal force wouldn’t kill me instantly.

Hey Peter

Currently reading: The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

"When I was growing up it was really cool to be a scientist or engineer. We need to make science cool again." -Sally Ride

This crescent-shape image is the best fit to observations of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, according to a January 2013 study.

Image credit: Kamruddin/Dexter 

What Will First Photos of Black Holes Look Like?

A giant black hole is thought to lurk at the center of the Milky Way, but it has never been directly seen. Now astronomers have predicted what the first pictures of this black hole will look like when taken with technology soon to be available.

In particular, researchers have found that pictures of a black hole ― or, more precisely, the boundaries around them ― will take a crescent form, rather than the blobby shape that is often predicted.

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