Friday, January 28, 2005
Meet the Neighbors
You gotta admit, this galaxy is pretty boring. Even the recent news that the black hole at the center of our galaxy may possibly, some day, become active again, and shower us with gamma-ray radiation, there's just no getting around the fact that it's just a regular old spiral galaxy, that the black hole at the center is only the size of 2.6 million suns, while the black hole at the center of Andromeda is 30 million suns, plus it's "anomalously cool." I can't wait til Andromeda gets here and we become a binary-blackhole galaxy. Like that snooty NGC 6240.
