sh0n gRub reporting from his orbit about the heart of the galaxy
I mean, there's no direction in space, so I just wanted to emphasize the pregnant hierophant with a head like Alf holding it's arms out crossed and what appears to be a highlit blue egg in its uterus. There's a lotta wicker-wack lashing whipstrands of turbulent activity seemingly captured in this image. Those are magnetized radio filaments, supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and portions of enormous radio bubbles extending above and below the galactic plane. Pretty gnarly, huh? Here's the image as I found it online:
See now our super dimensional view of this region at the heart of our galaxy can be seen as the MeerKAT intended: Red indicates strong radio emission; weaker emissions appear in grayscale. The finished mosaic combines 20 observations, approximately 200 hours of telescope time and 70 terabytes of raw data. Of course our Earth and Sun occupy the observational viewpoint behind this image. That yellow eyelet indicates the Sagittarius A region containing Sagittarius A*, our galaxy’s supermassive black hole.
If you want to interpret that small orange yellow luminous patch as an eye, it would be staring right back at us here on Earth. If you're wondering how much space this area takes, it's far less than 1% of the Milky Way—probably on the order of a few thousandths of one percent by projected area. The entire MeerKAT image covers only the central region of the galaxy—roughly 1,000–1,400 light-years in extent—while the Milky Way’s stellar disk is approximately 100,000 light-years across. The whole rectangular field on display here represents only around 0.01–0.03% of the galaxy’s projected disk area.
The visualization is mapping radio brightness, not showing everything that exists there. If you're wondering what size in relation to the yellow "eyelet fetus" kernel in the center the black hole within may be, it's far less than a single pixel within it, extremely miniscule by contrast as visualized on this scale. Plasma and electromagnetic fields are indispensable to the observable universe. They govern stellar atmospheres, solar winds, jets, accretion disks, radiation, charged-particle acceleration and many features in this very MeerKAT image. Galactic magnetic fields extend across enormous distances, and the Sun’s heliosphere interacts with the surrounding interstellar medium.
At the heart of the Milky Way, matter falls inward while radiation, magnetism and charged particles surge outward, contributing to a galactic circulation whose complete reach and significance remain imperfectly understood. I've been researching this because this image has fascinated me more than anything since the Hubble revealed the Carina Nebula Panorama (which I wrote about in my first foray of experimental gravitational lensing poetry, on the Freezine of Fantasy and Science Fiction). I wrote a short flash fiction sequel to that one, based on an expanded and higher resolution image of the Carina Nebula, which never ended up getting published on the Freezine, something I've been meaning to rectify ever since.
Now that this MeerKAT Man, or WoMan as the case may be, has been revealed, this Matriarchal Matrix incubating a motha- freakin' BLACK HOLE at the center of our universe - for all we know, the True Womb of our Creation - a Paradoxical Phenomenon which Births Itself - )?(as in the ancient Hebrew wisdom that signifies God being created along with the universe) after having emerged from the utter nonbeing of the void which we cannot possibly wrap our minds around or understand - [except as AIN SVP AVR {Ain Soph Aur = the negatively existent One; the limitless Expansion; the illimitable Light} - of which only a dim conception may be formed] - now that we can SEE some of it - as radio emissions - we can close our eyes and let our minds connect the dots. What do you think it all means?
Gaze deep into the heart of our galaxy:
Less than a pinprick of a pixel in the center of
this yellow mass lies a super massive black hole
Sagittarius A contains Sagittarius A* (and Sagittarius A*
identifies the black hole w/its immediate radiating surrounds)
