#mazeh

[formeryelpers]

Azizam, 2943 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles (Silver Lake), CA 90026

Newly opened, Azizam started as a pop-up a few years ago. The owners are Persian and the casual restaurant features homestyle food, including housemade bread, desserts, and Persian staples (mazeh/small cold dishes), hot dishes (khoresht, kofteh), and sandwiches (beef tongue, kuku). They offer a few housemade shrubs, natural wine, and beer. You can also buy a whole loaf of barbari bread ($12).

The desserts looked amazing. Persian cream puff with rosewater and pistachio. Napoleon cake with Persian flavors.

Braised beef tongue sandwich ($12): thick slabs of tender warm beef tongue, house pickles (crunchy and sour), fresh herbs, fresh onion, fresh tomato slice, tucked in a housemade barbari bread sprinkled with sesame seeds. On the smaller side but the best in town, thanks to the housemade bread (like a flatbread), generous amount of tongue, and the fresh veggies. Everything’s warm and comforting, but the crunchy pickles add bright flavor and crunch.

Cherry limeade: Made in house, very nice, sweet and tart, with fresh mint

Mazeh plate ($18): your choice of two mazeh (I picked wild shallot yogurt and shirazi), house pickles, feta, fresh herbs, & two small pieces of house barbari bread. It’s meant for sharing but very small. Everything was excellent though. The yogurt was thick and creamy, the shirazi had bigger pieces of tomato and cucumber with onion and mint, and the pickles were crunchy. Wish they doubled the amount of bread.

Ash-e-jo ($8 cup): a hearty soup of barley, bean, and mixed grain with fermented why, mint oil, and fried onions. Thick enough to be considered a stew. Lots of veggies, beans, and grains. Very good.

The space is very cute (green and white theme with colorful stools and plants) with a good-sized covered outdoor patio and some indoor seating. It has a very casual sidewalk café feel. Service was very friendly.

4.5 out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.

[drowsyfudge]

my oc who’s a pinniped jester

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Matthew Syed

Published: Aug 14, 2022

Yesterday morning, it was reported that Salman Rushdie — who had been attacked at a literary event on free speech in America— was unable to speak. Many fanatical Muslims will take this as a sign from God. This, after all, was their intention: to censor those who criticise their religion. The assailant kept trying to attack Rushdie even after he was restrained, according to witnesses. “It took like five men to pull him away and he was still stabbing,” one said.

A fatwa was imposed on Rushdie after the publication of The Satanic Verses, a beautifully written novel that was, in my view, tame in its supposed mockery of Islam. To Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran, however, the book was blasphemous. After a bounty was put on his head, Rushdie lived under British protection while his book was burnt on the streets and craven politicians such as the former Labour MP Keith Vaz spoke out in protest. Cat Stevens — the singer now known as Yusuf — said in a speech to students in London that said “he must be killed”, although he later claimed he had not called for Rushdie’s death.

Yet while Rushdie survived this hostility, others did not. Hitoshi Igarashi, his Japanese translator, was stabbed to death. Ettore Capriolo, his Italian translator, was also stabbed, and William Nygaard, his Norwegian publisher, was shot and critically injured. Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh perished while preparing explosives designed to kill the British novelist. A shrine in Tehran for Mazeh says: “The first martyr to die on a mission to kill Salman Rushdie.”

But while we look at all this with anger, while we condemn the religious fundamentalists, while we pray for Rushdie himself, let us also acknowledge something closer to home. Many of the comments on the Rushdie affair over the past 24 hours have pointed out that for many years he has been living quite freely, that the fatwa had been revoked by Iran (although the bounty remains) and that society has moved on from the dark days of book-burning, even if lone attackers remain a threat.

I would suggest that this is delusional, a fantasy conjured up by western liberals to distract from a more sinister truth: over 30 years they have worked as the de facto accomplices of the ayatollah, assisting in the task of dismantling free speech, sending fear through those who dare to criticise or ridicule religion or anything else. Rushdie, in this sense, is not — and never was — a historical affair but a live scandal running through the veins of British life, not to mention other western societies.

As I read about the attack on Rushdie, my mind turned to Louis Smith, another high-profile Briton from an ethnic minority; a gymnast who won three Olympic medals before going on to a TV career. A few years ago, he and his friend Luke Carson, a fellow gymnast, were frolicking around, singing (as they often did together) when Carson lay down on a mat and shouted “Allahu akbar” while Smith laughed. It was a bit of a giggle, nothing nasty, scarcely satirical. But the video, as you have probably guessed, leaked.

In the following days, liberal commentators were united in outrage. None saw this as two kids harmlessly mocking religion. None saw it as a trivial episode of ridicule of the kind that has always existed in liberal societies. None stated that no citizen, religious or otherwise, has a right or even a reasonable expectation to not be offended. Instead, they called for Smith to be banned — and he was, for two months, by British Gymnastics. He was accused of Islamophobia, racism, you name it. He appeared to have broken a chilling clause in UK Sport’s athlete’s contract: “Athletes may be ineligible for funding if they are derogatory about a person’s disability, gender, pregnancy or maternity, race, sexuality, marital status, beliefs or age.” I was astonished when I read this clause for it didn’t just prohibit mockery of protected characteristics, but all beliefs, of whatever kind. It meant that British athletes were prohibited from criticising Scientology, astrology or even Nazism. Under such a decree, Billie Jean King would have been banned in five minutes flat and Muhammad Ali even quicker. This wasn’t a contract; it was a gagging order. And yet this was the clause that UK Sport deemed necessary to “protect” its reputation

But this isn’t the half of it. I interviewed Smith a few months later, and he still looked shell-shocked. Death threats had started almost immediately: “We are going to find you, and kill you.” “You are going to get it.” One posted a video on social media: “I am going to splash acid in your face.” Scarcely any of this was reported in the media. In the week of our interview, he had received the message: “We are going to cave your face in.” Smith was forced to take out 24-hour protection, a hired heavy at his side at all times, even while he slept.

Yet the truly chilling aspect of this affair — which also went largely unreported — is that Smith couldn’t earn a living after his “crime”. Sponsors and broadcasters turned their backs on him. Progressives didn’t want to know. His income vanished and he struggled to pay his mortgage. To be clear: this punishment beating was perpetrated on Smith not by fanatics, not by knife-wielding fundamentalists, but the monolithic liberal ideology that will not tolerate opinions (or even jokes) that breach their antiliberal creed.

It was the same creed that defended those who hounded into hiding a teacher at a school in Batley, West Yorkshire, last year for showing his class a religious cartoon. It is the same creed that equates criticism of the myriad excesses of the Muslim Brotherhood with Islamophobia. And it is the same creed, to broaden the perspective, that connives in the cancellation and intimidation of anyone who engages in wrongthink on trans rights, climate change or the demolition of statues.

I pray — metaphorically — for Rushdie. He is a great and courageous Briton. But I also pray for the West. We like to think we have free speech but we lack even its pale imitation. Smith found work again only by issuing abject, almost pitiful apologies, bending the knee to liberal dogma, just as Galileo once prostrated himself before the Inquisition. Is it any wonder that myriad surveys reveal that people throughout the West desist from speaking out on sensitive issues, out of fear of the consequences?

This is the destination at which the liberal world has arrived — through stealth and increment, through a million little retreats, through the acquiescence of those who should know better. For initially noble motives related to the fear of giving offence to minority groups, we have committed the most grievous offence on our way of life. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” was the view attributed to Voltaire by his most famous biographer. We must resurrect its spirit, reclaim its beauty. For today, with Rushdie hooked up to a ventilator, we continue to sleepwalk towards disaster.

[ Via: https://archive.ph/md8Uk ]

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This is how Islam wins. Not by spreading the "truth" of Islam, not even by threatening violence. It wins by learning how to play the victim and recruiting virtuous flying monkeys.

[jacensolodjo]

Rabbi Mazeh: Please do something about the pogroms. Leon Trotsky: Why do you come to me? I am not a Jew. Rabbi Mazeh: That's the tragedy. It's the Trotskys who make the revolutions, and it's the Bronsteins who pay the price.

[gelaskuning]

Diajak meet up sama mazeh dan istrinya, soale istrinya mau mudik dan melahirkan di kampung dan ke sini lagi masih lama, jadi nanti kami ga ketemu lama, jadi diajakin meet up.

Yah kek makan-makan sambil ngobrol-ngobrol aja si. gw berasa adeknya banget kalo kek gini, berasa punya abang beneran gw wkwk

[onish]

Designing a logo for a home-cooked food preparation and distribution business | MAZEH KHOONEH (home flavors) | I have consistently adored things that challenge me, especially logos. In Iranian culture, 'MAZEH' alludes to snacks and edibles served with alcoholic beverages. I attempted to make the closest atmosphere to the logo theme by using symbolic images of cutting boards and culinary arts.

In collaboration with: Mehrdokht Darabi

[tarditardi]

15 e 16 marzo: Töchter der Kunst @ No'hma - Milano

Töchter der Kunst, Le figlie dell'arte, sono un collettivo di artiste femministe di Vienna. Sono convinte che il teatro debba "fare male" e non hanno timore, nei loro progetti, di sfidare gli stereotipi e le convenzioni. È quello che fanno in Bravo Girl, lo spettacolo in scena a No'hma - Milano mercoledì 15 e giovedì 16 marzo all'interno della XIV rassegna del Premio Internazionale "Il Teatro Nudo" di Teresa Pomodoro.

Come si comportano le ragazze di oggi? Come si dovrebbero comportare, secondo le convenzioni di genere? Che desideri hanno, come vedono se stesse al di là delle norme sociali e delle aspettative? Bravo Girl affronta in maniera acuta e spiritosa questioni delicate come il sessismo e le disuguaglianze di genere, in un collage effervescente e ironico che mescola teatro, danza, scienza e nuovi media.

La compagnia Töchter der Kunst è stata fondata nel 2008 come centro per l'arte senza scopo di lucro con il fine della sperimentazione teatrale e artistica. Ha collaborato con importanti teatri di Vienna come il Dscungel Wien e il Theater Drachengasse e con il Viertelfestival. I progetti della compagnia affrontano la questione di genere con uno sguardo disincantato e ironico, lo stesso che si ritrova in Motherhood, il brillante e divertente musical ungherese dedicato alla maternità in scena a marzo a No'hma per il sesto appuntamento del Premio Internazionale.

LA RASSEGNA

Ogni anno, il Premio Internazionale dedicato a Teresa Pomodoro, fondatrice di No'hma, ospita a Milano quattordici compagnie dal mondo, i cui spettacoli vengono valutati dalla Giuria degli Spettatori e dalla Giuria degli Esperti. Nel corso delle sue quattordici edizioni, il Premio Internazionale è progressivamente cresciuto in termini di risonanza, raggiungendo numeri sempre più considerevoli: dal 2009 ad oggi si contano oltre 60 Paesi partecipanti e 141 spettacoli per un totale di 79.000 spettatori, che grazie allo streaming e all'Onlife sono sparsi in tutto il mondo. 

Spettacoli mercoledì 15 e giovedì 16 marzo, ore 21.

L'ingresso sarà come sempre gratuito e lo spettacolo sarà trasmesso in diretta streaming.

La prenotazione è obbligatoria ed effettuabile tramite il sito Eventbrite, oppure mandando una mail a nohma@nohma.it o chiamando il numero 02/45.48.50.85.

Bravo girl

I tempi cambiano

regista: Nico Wind

co-regista: Helena May Heber

con: 

Blanka Daneluk

Luisa Mazeh

Miel Wanka

Tamalynne Grant

Victoria Lozar

allestimento scene e video: Tanja Peinsipp

foto: Robin Daneluk

con il sostegno di ACT OUT 

un progetto di IG Freie Theaterarbeit, 

realizzato con il finanziamento di BMEIA

[lucantanti]

Sab 11 Marzo vi aspettiamo a Comiso al @mazeh_bistrot per una serata all’insegna della buona musica e dell’ottima cucina! Cosa aspetti prenota il tuo tavolo! (presso Mazeh) https://www.instagram.com/p/CplWKqkj8NR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ask-pakistan]

What are your favourite ways to have coffee and do you enjoy how other countries make them? From @hws-cuba 💙

"Though i have heard that Cuba is pretty known for its coffee. Do you mind if i try some? @hws-cuba "

[atheistcartoons]

This image was compiled by someone who has no understanding of Islam. I will address each underlined stupid separately. 

Salman Rushdie

First of all, no one can “excommunicate” anyone in Islam. The idea is ludicrous. There is no central power structure or hierarchy. Everything is between you and your god. A prominent Muslim cleric can say “this man is not a Muslim” and it means nothing. 

Moreover, even if you could “excommunicate” someone, most Muslims understand that it wouldn’t be a “fatwa”. Muslims understand a fatwa to be the non-binding judgement of a legal expert in specific matters. Have a look at some fatwas on islamicweb.net to get a representative cross-section. You’ll notice none of them come anywhere close to condoning any sort of violence, and every single one of them ends with a sheepish, we-could-be-wrong-about-this, “Allah knows best”. 

In this view, then, what the then Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced on Salman Rushdie was not a fatwa; it was a death sentence. It probably doesn’t make a difference from Rushdie’s point of view but it demonstrates the lack of basic research that went into this image.

Because there is no hierarchy in Islam, the Ayatollah of Iran does not tell the Muslims of the world what to do. He doesn’t even tell the Muslims in Iran what to do. Muslims only take orders from the Koran (the revealed word of their god) and the example set by Muhammad (which they call Sunnah). Even then, they’re always arguing about it. What did the Koran mean by this, what did Muhammad mean by that; it’s endless. A fatwa is a single opinion from one expert in these matters. 

Functionally, a death warrant was issued from the Iranian government, which, while ostensibly a democracy, answers to the current Ayatollah Khamenei.  Indeed, when one unaffiliated lunatic called Mustafa Mazeh made an incredibly incompetent attempt to assassinate Rushdie, he was rewarded not by “Islam” but by the Iranian government. 

However, unlike Israel or Russia or the US, Iran does not send secret agents around the world to kill people. As long as Rushdie stayed out of Iran, he was safe (except from the occasional lone unaffiliated lunatic, from whom it could be argued, as a quick glance at recent U.S. history will reveal, none of us are safe with or without the opinion of an Ayatollah). Rushdie himself referred to the order as “a piece of rhetoric rather than a real threat.”

As there are always those who seem eager to misinterpret my posts, this is the official Atheist Cartoons position: sentencing anyone to death for writing a book, no matter how offensive, is unjustifiable and inexcusable. There is no wiggle room here.

Boko Haram

Muhammad did not rape or murder anyone, at least not in any of the texts Muslims regard as authoritative. The Koran does endorse slavery, as does the Christian bible, and Muhammad did own slaves in the hadiths, but made a habit of freeing them on pretty much any pretext and he strongly recommended others should free their slaves for a variety of reasons. In Islam, Muslims cannot have Muslim slaves. 

While this is double-plus-ungood, it still puts them a good 1,000 years ahead of everyone else.  

Muslims do seek to emulate Muhammad but it’s mostly centred around things like charity, saying lots of prayers in the “right” way, being kind to people, taking care of the elderly and “orphans” and so on. As is traditional in Islam, there are many arguments over what counts as Sunnah and what doesn’t.

The Koran explicitly forbids the killing of Muslims and implicitly forbids the killing of non-Muslims (with notable exceptions during wartime or in self-defence). Some Muslims, however, clearly feel that murdering other Muslims is fine. Maybe members of ISIS feel that the wartime exception applies to whatever the hell they’re doing. Maybe ISIS don’t give a shit about Islam and they’re purely a political organisation. I wouldn't know. 

As explained above, Boko Haram members cannot be “excommunicated by fatwa” from Islam. The concept is nonsensical for two separate reasons. Whether anyone in Boko Haram is still a Muslim is between them and their god: “Allah knows best”. 

The remaining accusation is that Boko Haram are not “condemned”. 

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, approved the release of $1bn to fund the fight against Boko Haram. Governor Aliyu of Niger State (to the north of Nigeria) reminded his co-religionists that “Islam is known to be a religion of peace and does not condone violence and crime in any form” and “many prominent Muslims have clearly condemned terrorist attacks”.

So Muslim leaders are speaking out against Boko Haram, and Muslim leaders are throwing huge amounts of cash at measures to fight their influence. What else are they supposed to do?

Again, for the hard of thinking: I am not defending Islam here. Atheists think that the entire basis of Islam (i.e. that a god exists) is incorrect. What I am doing in this post is attacking stupid.

Update 13 August 2022: Salman Rushdie has been attacked and is currently in hospital in a serious condition. At the moment, everything in this post stands as accurate at the time of writing (12 April 2022) but when I know more about what actually happened I’ll probably incorporate something about it. 

Update 1 November 2022: Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand after the attack. As stated in the main blog post, his own agent admits that you can’t do much to stop a lone lunatic.

Whoever stabbed Salman Rushdie, it seems very likely that it’s a result of the death warrant issued by the Iranian government. Blaming “Islam” for this, especially if you know nothing about it, or trashing Muslims, especially if you know nothing about them, might not be the best way to support him. Maybe buy the book? That’s the best way to support any writer, I think.

Islam is not a solid block of ideology. It’s a series of arguments between scholars. They hardly agree on anything. Therefore, claiming something like “Islam thinks X” or “Islam does Y” may be nothing more than an advertisement that you know nothing about Islam. What you can do is criticise the Iranian government. 

For the hard of thinking, in case this needs to be said explicitly, I absolutely oppose the idea that anyone should be physically damaged just for saying or writing something, especially as The Satanic Verses is a work of literary fiction (i.e. he didn’t write it just to annoy Muslims). The judgement issued by the Ayatollah was in my view unconditionally wrong morally and arguably wrong legally (the Ayatollah himself was unable to justify it using Koran or hadiths).

[languagelearningcorner]

Expressions/Feedback-Persian

How interesting-(che jāleb) چه جالب

Really-(vāgh?an) واقعا

How strange-(che ajeeb) چه عجیب

I can’t believe...- (bāvaram nemishe) باورم نمیشه

Exactly- (daghighan) دقیقا

I agree-(movāfegham) موافقم

I disagree- (mokhālefam/movāfegh nistam) مخالفم/موافق نیستم

How cute- (che bā mazeh/ che bā namak)- چه بامزه/ چه با نمک

I didn’t know that -(man ino nemidoonestam) من اینو نمیدونستم

*Please don’t hesitate to let me know if there are any typos/mistranslations/mis-transliterations:)

[barrzut]

Troubled mapping of Tel Aviv

For “110 Tel Avivian Maps” group exhibition at Mazeh 9

Buy the print at https://telavivian.shop/products/a-troubled-mapping-of-tel-aviv?variant=32412619833425 

[svartikotturinn]

I’ve always thought that same way ‘friend of Dorothy’ is a euphemism for ‘gay’, ‘friend of Poogy’, from Poogy Tales, could be another term for ‘homophobe’—i.e. an idiot in the closet. Translation below:

THE CLOSET PEOPLE A Legend that Was for Real

  Well, our story begins in a large house, on the corner of Mazeh Street and Lama Street [not a real street—it’s a pun], which is the home of Poogy. And in the house there is a closet, and inside the closet there sits a group of people who have been waiting there for a long time. Shlomo felt very uncomfortable between all those clothes, and next to him there sat Vittore Presto, Aici Pappa, and Lughi Gresco, passing time by making room for more time.   One day they all got up and came out of the closet, and while they were standing outside the closet, Shlomo recalled and declared in his vocal voice:   ‘But Poogy told us to wait for him in the closet!’   He said, and before you could say ‘Ya‘akov Abul‘afya’, Poogy came in, with groceries from the grocery store in his hand, and stood there, astounded:   ‘I told you to wait for me in the closet!!’   He said, and everyone had a look of guilt in their eyes, because everyone felt guilty.   And since there’s no sense crying over spilled milk, Vittore Presto immediately spilled milk on the floor so that nobody would cry.   Poogy saw the milk on the floor, became angry, and said:   ‘Not only are you not waiting for me in the closet, you’re spilling milk on the floor, too?!’   At this point everyone understood what a mess they got themselves into. Lughi Gresco immediately hid under the couch and started making carpet noises.   Vittore Presto cried over the spilled milk, and Aici Pappa couldn’t stand the uncomfortable situation, so he sat down.   Lughi Gresco, Aici Pappa, Vittore Presto, and Shlomo were very, very sorry about the incident that occurred and regretted not waiting in the closet.

  Moral of the story:   It’s better to live with four people inside a closet that pay 550 liras per month for a 1.5 room apartment.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

[metodogolo]

Astrónomos descubren el agujero negro más cercano a la Tierra

Los astrónomos que utilizan el telescopio Gemini Norte en Hawái, uno de los telescopios gemelos del Observatorio Internacional Gemini, operado por NOIRLab de NSF, han descubierto el agujero negro más cercano a la Tierra, que los investigadores han denominado Gaia BH1.

Este agujero negro inactivo es aproximadamente 10 veces más masivo que el Sol y está ubicado a unos 1600 años luz de distancia en la constelación de Ofiuco, lo que lo hace tres veces más cerca de la Tierra que el poseedor del récord anterior, un binario de rayos X en la constelación de Monoceros.

El nuevo descubrimiento fue posible gracias a las exquisitas observaciones del movimiento de la compañera del agujero negro, una estrella similar al Sol que orbita el agujero negro aproximadamente a la misma distancia que la Tierra orbita alrededor del Sol.

Referencia:

Kareem El-Badry, Hans-Walter Rix, Eliot Quataert, Andrew W Howard, Howard Isaacson, Jim Fuller, Keith Hawkins, Katelyn Breivik, Kaze W K Wong, Antonio C Rodriguez, Charlie Conroy, Sahar Shahaf, Tsevi Mazeh, Frédéric Arenou, Kevin B Burdge, Dolev Bashi, Simchon Faigler, Daniel R Weisz, Rhys Seeburger, Silvia Almada Monter, Jennifer Wojno, A Sun-like star orbiting a black hole, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 518, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 1057–1085, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3140

[astroimages]

DESCOBERTO O BURACO NEGRO MAIS PRÓXIMO DA TERRA!!!

VISITE A SPACE TODAY STORE E GARANTA O SEU KIT DA MISSÃO ARTEMIS I: https://www.spacetodaystore.com/artemis-2022/ O buraco negro conhecido mais próximo pode ter sido encontrado a poucos passos da Terra, a apenas 1500 anos-luz de distância. Chamado de Gaia BH1, estima-se que tenha cerca de 10 vezes a massa do nosso sol. Embora não possa ser visto diretamente porque não emite luz, dados do telescópio espacial Gaia da Agência Espacial Européia revelaram o puxão gravitacional que o buraco negro exerce em sua estrela companheira em órbita, que é semelhante em idade e massa ao nosso próprio sol. Vários candidatos a buracos negros próximos foram encontrados antes, mas a maioria não resistiu ao escrutínio . No entanto, Kareem El-Badry , do Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, em Massachusetts, e seus colegas dizem que sua descoberta é o melhor candidato até agora para tal objeto. “Este é sólido”, diz Tsvei Mazeh , membro da equipe, da Universidade de Tel Aviv, em Israel. “Estou pronto para apostar minha vida nisso.” Muitos buracos negros já foram descobertos antes, como a fusão de buracos negros vistos pelas ondas gravitacionais que produzem , e outros comendo estrelas em sistemas binários , fazendo-as brilhar intensamente em raios-X. Astrônomos usando o Event Horizon Telescope também fizeram imagens diretas de dois desses gigantes cósmicos . Buracos negros adormecidos como Gaia BH1 têm sido mais difíceis de encontrar, no entanto, devido à sua quase invisibilidade. “Esses buracos negros estão longe de qualquer fonte de alimento”, diz Lukasz Wyrzykowski da Universidade de Varsóvia, na Polônia – a estrela de Gaia BH1 orbita o buraco negro aproximadamente à mesma distância que a Terra orbita o sol. Não está claro como esse sistema se formou. Uma possibilidade é que o buraco negro era originalmente uma estrela muito mais massiva que se expandiu em uma supergigante vermelha e depois entrou em colapso, talvez com uma supernova acompanhante, embora seja improvável que sua estrela companheira tenha sobrevivido. Outro cenário é que o buraco negro poderia ser na verdade dois buracos negros, tornando este originalmente um sistema de estrelas triplas. Alternativamente, a estrela companheira poderia ter sido capturada pelo buraco negro ao passar. El-Badry espera descobrir com observações de acompanhamento usando outros telescópios, procurando evidências de um buraco negro binário ou mesmo planetas orbitando a estrela, o que poderia sugerir que não houve evento explosivo. “Definitivamente poderia ter planetas”, diz ele. “Se você vivesse em um planeta ao redor da estrela, o buraco negro seria tão brilhante quanto Júpiter”, pois come uma pequena quantidade do vento solar da estrela, diz ele. Em alguns bilhões de anos, espera-se que a estrela se expanda em uma gigante vermelha, como o nosso sol, o que aumentará massivamente o combustível no buraco negro e fará com que pareça muito mais brilhante no céu de qualquer planeta próximo. “Cem mil vezes mais brilhante que o sol”, diz El-Badry. Espera-se que as próximas observações de Gaia encontrem dezenas desses buracos negros adormecidos em nossa galáxia, dos quais pode haver dezenas de milhares. Sistemas como o Gaia BH1 seriam os principais alvos para aprender mais sobre buracos negros. “Podemos pensar em estudar o próprio buraco negro”, diz Wyrzykowski. “Normalmente não temos chances de estudar esses extremos da física.” FONTE: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338403-closest-black-hole-to-earth-is-just-1500-light-years-away/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.06833.pdf #BLACKHOLES #CLOSESTBLACKHOLE #UNFOLDTHEUNIVERSE

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kangen mazeh