Muse were ahead of their time.
It's brave, and we're going to say it: while their forthcoming ninth album Will of the People sounds society-confirming at best, the longstanding English rock outfit did not have to go as hard as they did with "Supermassive Black Hole," which was originally featured on 2006's Black Holes and Revelations and went on to become the shining star of the Twilight soundtrack; the baseball scene is cinema at its absolute finest and every bit of training necessary for Robert Pattinson's moody performance in The Batman. But they did, and they did that for us.
Science is finally repaying the band, with astronomers revealing the first photo of an actual supermassive black hole in the centre of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
Shared yesterday (May 12) at simultaneous press conferences around the world, the image provides our first direct evidence that the middle of the glowing donut-shaped orb — which has been named Sagittarius A* — is, in fact, a black hole.
This development "yields valuable clues about the workings of such giants, which are thought to reside at the centre of most galaxies," according to a news release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Located 27,000 light-years away from Earth, the black hole is about four million times larger than our sun — so yeah, "supermassive" fits.
Having name-dropped the cavity on WE track "End of the Empire IV (Sagittarius A*)," Arcade Fire performed at an event celebrating the groundbreaking photographic evidence.
But the real news bulletin here is that Muse bandleader Matt Bellamy has responded to the first telescopic portrait of the elusive Sagittarius A* in an Instagram post.
"Knew she'd show up one day," the prophetic musician wrote in the caption, sharing the image and screenshots from an article from The Atlantic with his followers.
Oh, to be Muse's muse.
See Bellamy's post below.
Hayley Williams recently dug into the Twilight soundtrack, which also features her band Paramore, on new podcast Everything Is Emo.
It's brave, and we're going to say it: while their forthcoming ninth album Will of the People sounds society-confirming at best, the longstanding English rock outfit did not have to go as hard as they did with "Supermassive Black Hole," which was originally featured on 2006's Black Holes and Revelations and went on to become the shining star of the Twilight soundtrack; the baseball scene is cinema at its absolute finest and every bit of training necessary for Robert Pattinson's moody performance in The Batman. But they did, and they did that for us.
Science is finally repaying the band, with astronomers revealing the first photo of an actual supermassive black hole in the centre of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
Shared yesterday (May 12) at simultaneous press conferences around the world, the image provides our first direct evidence that the middle of the glowing donut-shaped orb — which has been named Sagittarius A* — is, in fact, a black hole.
This development "yields valuable clues about the workings of such giants, which are thought to reside at the centre of most galaxies," according to a news release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Located 27,000 light-years away from Earth, the black hole is about four million times larger than our sun — so yeah, "supermassive" fits.
Having name-dropped the cavity on WE track "End of the Empire IV (Sagittarius A*)," Arcade Fire performed at an event celebrating the groundbreaking photographic evidence.
But the real news bulletin here is that Muse bandleader Matt Bellamy has responded to the first telescopic portrait of the elusive Sagittarius A* in an Instagram post.
"Knew she'd show up one day," the prophetic musician wrote in the caption, sharing the image and screenshots from an article from The Atlantic with his followers.
Oh, to be Muse's muse.
See Bellamy's post below.
Hayley Williams recently dug into the Twilight soundtrack, which also features her band Paramore, on new podcast Everything Is Emo.
