A black hole is hovering above us: will it devour us? – breaking latest news

Atavistic fears are part of existence. Think of “A Thousand and No More A Thousand!” when humanity entered the second millennium. The terror of the end of the world filled the churches with penitents and the pockets of serious and less serious preachers. Yet New Year’s Eve at the end of the first millennium passed without cataclysms. The Event Horizon Telescope, a team of three hundred scientists and researchers collaborating for common purposes, photographed Sagittarius A. It is a voracious cosmic phenomenon capable of engulfing the masses of the planets in the vortex of its antimatter. Thus, three years after the photographic evidence of a similar case in the galaxy M87, a new black hole appears on the horizon. This uncomfortable tenant is, however, located in the center of our Milky Way. So very astronomically close to Mother Earth. Do not be frightened immediately: before it gets to devour us, a few million decades will pass. Yet the news is enough to awaken the ancient fear of the end of creation. The black hole of the Milky Way exists: the first photo in history Perhaps this too is part of the nihilism inherent in the human species: the certainty that everything has an end leads to looking for other more striking ways to get out of the scene. And the black hole goes well with stereotypes of cosmic terror, such as the crazed asteroid or the solar storm. With a difference. While all the others are decisive and dead-end, the still unclear concept of antimatter opens the thought to the alternative: if in addition to the vortex of the black hole there was a different anti-life? This too is part of human reason: to find a way out because we are unable to resign ourselves that the end will come. Meanwhile, we wallow in our daily fears, forgetting how exciting it is to live for the day. Perhaps, appreciating the vastness of the mystery of the cosmos would help to assimilate a less difficult vision of nature: …