12 May, 2022 20:41

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Photo confirms what’s at the center of our galaxy

Astronomers have confirmed the object at the center of our galaxy is a black hole and photographed it.

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Astronomers have confirmed the supermassive object at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy is indeed a black hole and captured the first-ever images of it using a worldwide network of telescopes. The images were unveiled on Thursday at multiple press conferences by a team of researchers known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration.

Known as Sagittarius A, the object at the center of the Milky Way – “invisible, compact and very massive,” as described in a press release published by the European Southern Observatory – was long suspected to be a black hole. However, the images created through linking up a global network of radio telescopes provide direct proof of this hypothesis.

The images show a dark central “shadow” surrounded by a bright ring made up of glowing gasses, the light they produce bent by the black hole’s powerful gravity. The object has four million times the mass of the Sun, and is located 27,000 light years away from our planet.

The visuals were recorded by linking together eight radio observatories around the world to form what the researchers described as “a single ‘Earth-sized’ virtual telescope,” which was then used to observe Sagittarius A for hours at a time on multiple nights in 2017.

The EHT, which includes more than 300 researchers from 80 institutes, previously imaged the black hole M87 at the center of the distant Messier 87 galaxy, publishing those findings in 2019. Sagittarius A is much closer, as well as over 1,000 times smaller and less massive. However, it was significantly more difficult to photograph given the more rapid orbit time of the gases surrounding the Milky Way’s black hole, with EHT scientist Chi-kwan Chan likening the process to “trying to take a clear picture of a puppy quickly chasing its tail.”

Still, the end product looks remarkably similar to its much larger cousin, M87, the EHT’s science council co-chair, Sera Markoff, observed, viewing the similarity as proof that, “General Relativity governs these objects up close, and any differences we see further away must be due to differences in the material that surrounds the black holes.”

The researchers hope to use the data on both black holes to test hypotheses regarding the mysterious objects, from their effect on gravity to how gas behaves in their vicinity, a process that remains poorly-understood but which astronomers believe plays a part in how galaxies form and grow over time.

Accompanying the photographic findings were six papers published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters covering various aspects of the discovery,from the imaging process to the morphology of black holes.

https://www.rt.com/news/555396-black-hole-milky-way-photographed/

12 May, 2022 20:24

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Russia comments on allegations of violence against children in Ukraine

Moscow’s envoy to the UN slammed the accusations as baseless, while Kiev has failed to confirm a single fact of the story

(FF against Russia exactly what is expected when Ukraine gof exposed for experimenting on children)

The allegations of assorted atrocities against children purportedly committed by the Russian military in Ukraine are “absurd” and not backed up by any facts, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, has said. The diplomat made the remarks during a UN Security Council meeting on Thursday.

“Today, we once again heard accusations from a number of colleagues against the Russian military of committing acts of violence, including sexual violence, against children. This wasvoiced, in particular, by a British colleague, but by others as well,” he stated, adding that said allegations were “absurd.”

The claims are not backed by facts, with even top Kiev officials admitting they do not have any actual evidence to support them, Nebenzia went on, bringing up a recent interview with Daria Gerasimchuk, the adviser to the Ukrainian president’s commissioner for children's rights.

“To date, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office has not a single confirmed fact of violence,” she told the Poland-based Belsat TV channel in Belarus on Wednesday.

Ukrainian forces, on the contrary, have been routinely taking up positions at schools and kindergartens, deliberately turning such facilities into military targets, Nebenzia stated.

“The occupation of schools, kindergartens and other children’s educational institutions by the Ukrainian Armed Forces is not the exception,but the rule,” the diplomat said. “This inhumane method of warfare endangers the lives of children, deprives them of their right to education, and destroys Ukraine's educational infrastructure.”

We have the strong impression that the norms of international humanitarian law exist for anyone, but not for Kiev … The deliberate destruction of civilian objects is a hallmark of Kiev, and this is not Russian propaganda.

(These politicians can make up anything and be heard, and no one is listening to the proof Russia has. They need a movement MRGA! Now)

https://www.rt.com/russia/555385-ukraine-violence-allegations-nebenzia/

12 May, 2022 18:09

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No nukes for Ukraine – US

Washington won’t gift nukes to Kiev, but a top official refused to publicly rule out a first strike with such weapons

There is “no question” of the US providing nuclear weapons to Ukraine, Assistant Secretary of State Karen Donfried told a Senate hearing on Thursday. However, she would not publicly commit to ruling out a first nuclear strike.

“The United States is not a party to this conflict,” Donfried told lawmakers during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, adding that “the United States is providing security assistance and weapons to Ukraine, but there’s no question of the US providing nuclear weapons to Ukraine.”

Donfried was not asked whether the US would be gifting nukes to Kiev. Rather, Senator Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, pressed her to publicly state that the US does not “want to pose an existential threat” to Russia, and would not be the first party to fire nuclear weapons.

Donfried did not directly answer either question, insisting that the US is not directly participating in the Ukrainian conflict, and therefore not at war with Russia.

Russia, however, views the US as participating in the conflict because of its supply of arms and intelligence to Kiev. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused the Washington and its NATO military bloc of “essentially going to war with Russia through a proxy and arming that proxy,” while President Vladimir Putin has threatened a “swift, lightning-fast” response to any outside interference that puts his country's national security at risk.

Russia has a no-first-use policy on nuclear weapons, save for a hypothetical situation in which the existence of the Russian state is threatened by either nuclear or conventional weapons. The US maintains a more ambiguous policy, stating that its nukes are a deterrent, but may be used in “extreme circumstances to defend the vital interests of the United States or its allies and partners.”

https://www.rt.com/news/555389-nuclear-weapons-ukraine-senate/

12 May, 2022 18:01

Anti-Russia sanctions triggering global food and energy crises – China

Beijing tells UN that measures to punish Moscow won’t bring peace to Ukraine

The Western sanctions campaign topunish Russia over the Ukraine conflict will backfire, causing suffering around the world while failing to promote peace in the former Soviet republic, a top Chinese diplomat has told the UN Security Council.

Dai made his comments as the Security Council met to discuss the humanitarian crisis brought on by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Although he also spoke of efforts to help protect children affected by the fighting, such as encouraging Russia and Ukraine to work together to enable more civilian evacuations, he said the only real solution is a negotiated peace deal.

“Sanctions will not bring peace but will only accelerate the spillover of the crisis, triggering sweeping food, energy and financial crises across the globe,” Chinese deputy UN ambassador Dai Bing said on Thursday in New York. He added that continuing to impose sanctions on Moscow will force children around the world to “suffer the bitter consequences.”

Achieving peace is the best protection for children,” Dai said. “Dialogue and negotiation are the most realistic and feasible way to reach a ceasefire and to stop the war. The international community should encourage Russia and Ukraine to return to the negotiation track and keep accumulating political conditions for the restoration of peace.”

By instead of trying to force a resolution through sanctions,Western nations and their allies are actually causing more harm to children, especially those living in such war-torn places as Afghanistan, Yemen, the Horn of Africa and the Sahel region, Dai said. “China again calls on parties to stay rational and exercise restraint, transcend prejudice and strife, and make unremitting efforts for the early resolution of the crisis in Ukraine.”

The US and its NATO allies have spearheaded the sanctions campaign, trying to isolate Russia and devastate its economy and currency. However, the ruble is actually stronger today than before the Ukraine crisis began, rebounding from an historic low reached in March. In fact, it has been the world’s top-performing currency so far in 2022, even though Russia’s economy is reportedly on track to contract by an estimated 12% this year.

Meanwhile, food and energy shortages are looming around the world, and inflation is at around a 40-year high in the US and parts of Western Europe. President Vladimir Putin claimed on Thursday that sanctions are triggering a global economic crisis, and the blame “lies entirely with the elites of Western countries who are ready to sacrifice the rest of the world to maintain their global dominance.”

https://www.rt.com/news/555390-china-says-russia-sanctions-to-backfire/

Does any anons think POTUS forced Bidan to call him MAGA King, and use Ultra MAGA? I cant imagine Bidan or staff would think that wouldnt be embraced by MAGA.

I’m trying to picture how the conversation went (add to the plot of you want):

Phone ringing:

POTUS: Bidan picks up the phone and says hello. POTUS shouts, WE caught you, we caught you all!

Bidan: How’d did you get this phone number? What do you mean? You’re bluffing!

POTUS: What a stupid question, I’m the Commander in Chief, I can get any information I want or need!

And Well, you wish I was bluffing. But you know Psaki leaving the WH for a cushy job with fake news, that really took some wrangling, but we did it.

And guess what, she gave us everyone and everthing. When I say everything I mean MAGA cubed by a million times, really everything.

Joe, you wouldn’t even believe how she spilled her guts. She gave everything including turning over all the plans, including eacape plans; where the bank accounts are, homes, aliases, even the Fucking conspirers WW for the last 25 years. And even how that faker Obummer got in to office in the first place. Oh, some Saudies also helped a great deal too.

I’m going to have some fun with a lot of world leaders, since I know what they’ve done and most especially the last election rigging. Those guy’s really hate me and America.They’ll pay for hating America!

Oh and btw, all of the world leaders and Peppermint Pattie told us you’re whole history. And the best part, they said you are a real sadistic asshole, almost as sadistic as the real Biden. They also turned over the blackmail they had on you. Even that little creep Zelensky. He sung like a 1,000 singer birds.

Bidan: uh, uh, uh, show me some proof! I don’t believe you.

POTUS: ok I’m texting you a picture of all your bank account #s WW. But thats not all we have. I’m texting you the pictures of you with children. Did you get them yet?

Bidan: Thats not me, thats not my bank accounts. You cant prove anything!

POTUS: Joe, seriously never doubt me, you know I believe in revenge. And you know how I called you sleepy Joe, and you’re not the same man you were?

Bidan: Yeah I remember asshole!

POTUS: Well, I even have proof you are not the real Joe Bidan (which I already knew, I just received more documentation).

And the reason why I know, besides the documents, others in your circle gave us, but because I was the one who ordered the real Joe Biden be put to death for treason and a multitude of other crimes he committed.

Bidan: listen I was forced into this, you’ve got to give me a break, I cant be executed, I’ve got family in Alabama. Please what can I do?

POTUS: Listen asshole you almost destroyed America, you’re not going to get off lightly, but if you don’t want to be executed, I can offer you two ways out.

Bidan: I’ll do anything!

POTUS: First you got to call thecmovementnot just MAGA anymore, but call it Ultra MAGA.

And secondyou’ve got to call me Trump, “The King of MAGA!

Do you get it, do you really want to save your life for your Alabama family? By the way Joe, I LOVE ALABAMA!

Bidan: Yes I’ll do that but its a strange request.

POTUS: Shut to fuck up asshole and do it. You will then be relieved of any duties for the rest of your life while in Gitmo.

Bidan: Can my family visit me in Gitmo?

POTUS: Dont push it, you’re lucky I’m in a good mood today.