[Physics] Milky way black hole missing?

[Doug Marett]

 Hi Tom,

     Similar doubt was expressed in this article:
https://dailygalaxy.com/2018/10/the-milky-ways-central-supermassive-black-hole-is-a-mirage-it-doesnt-exist/
which is where I first heard of the Event Horizon Telescope project - they
seemed to imply the results would be available in Dec. 2018. Chapline's
alternative idea seems even stranger though - dark energy stars.
Doug

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 3:09 PM Tom Hollings <carmam at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> Doug, I suspect that your last sentence is correct. They will not publish
> any findings which go against their doctrine.
>
> 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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