[Physics] Milky way black hole missing?

[Tom Hollings]

Doug, I suspect that your last sentence is correct. They will not publish any findings which go against their doctrine (until they massage the figures of course).

Tom Hollings

> On 16 February 2019 at 17:54 Doug Marett <dm88dm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     Hey All.
>     This seems like an important development you should be made aware of. The Event Horizon Telescope project has been saying they are going to provide an image of the alleged black hole at the center of the milky way for some time now. See:
>     https://eventhorizontelescope.org/news/planning-images-black-hole-new-image-analysis-tools-presented-aas-nova
> 
>     And they already know what it should look like, see:
>     https://aasnova.org/2018/09/24/planning-for-images-of-a-black-hole/
> 
>     However, a paper has just been released by another group which claims they have imaged the same Sag. A. object using VLBI techniques. This paper is discussed in detail in the youtube video here which seems to explain it quite nicely:
> 
>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiKNMvEnpbQ
> 
>     The problem is that the object at the center of our milky way doesn't look anything like what it is supposed to. In fact it doesn't look like a black hole at all. The only way they can explain it is to argue that astrophysical jets from this "black hole" are being shot out along our line of site - i.e. straight towards us. This doesn't make sense, since according to every model I have seen, these jets are supposed to be emitted along the axis of rotation of the galaxy, not straight into the disk where we are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysical_jet
> 
>     This makes me wonder if the Event Horizon Telescope project is delaying the release of their results because they are not finding what they expect.
> 
>     Doug
> 
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