Todays Thought

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. 

-Maya Angelou, poet (4 Apr 1928-2014)

Todays Thought

I am only one, / But still I am one. / I cannot do everything, / But still I can do something; / And because I cannot do everything, / I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. 

-Edward Everett Hale, author (3 Apr 1822-1909)

Todays Thought

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you're keeping. 

-Kenneth Tynan, critic and writer (2 Apr 1927-1980)

Todays Thought

Make no judgments where you have no compassion. 

-Anne McCaffrey, writer (1 Apr 1926-2011)

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Why Magical Realism is a Global Phenomenon | It's Lit

Milky Way black hole has 'strong, twisted' magnetic field in mesmerizing new image

 Milky Way black hole has 'strong, twisted' magnetic field in mesmerizing new image

For the first time, we're seeing the Sagittarius A* black hole in polarized light. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration says the image offers a new look at "the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole" at the center of the Milky Way.

EHT Collaboration

The black hole at the center of our galaxy has been compared to a doughnut — and as it turns out, this doughnut has swirls. Scientists shared a mesmerizing new image on Wednesday, showing Sagittarius A* in unprecedented detail. The polarized light image shows the black hole's magnetic field structure as a striking spiral.

"What we're seeing now is that there are strong, twisted, and organized magnetic fields near the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy," Sara Issaoun, a project co-leader and NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Einstein Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard & Smithsonian, said in a statement about the image.