First Image of Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way - Various

Yesterday Panzer sent you to information about the SFWA Conference. Today he's sending you to information about the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Yesterday was fiction. Today is reality.

 

According to various posts, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has announced the first image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Included in the posts is information about how black holes work and how the image was captured. An image of the black hole was released on Twitter earlier this week. Both the CNet post and the Associated Press (AP) post listed below include the image.

 

There is so much out there to see.

Panzer says, "It's fantastic."

 

Note:These are long posts. Bring your lunch to read them both. If you plan to follow the links in the posts, you'll need your dinner too.

 

To read the CNet post tootle over to Milky Way's Black Hole

To read the AP post tootle over to Milky Way Image 

Local governments won't say what they're offering Amazon - AP News

Today's trip took Panzer to the AP News (Associated Press) site. There with no digging at all he found a post about Amazon's second headquarters (HQ2).

According to the post by Josh Cornfield, Amazon has promised to choose the location for their second headquarters (HQ2) by the end of this year. By the 2017 deadline 238 proposals were received  from different states, cities and districts in North America. Each is hoping to get Amazon's promised 50,000 jobs. They're willing to give Amazon tax breaks, grants and incentives to get those jobs, but most are not willing to discuss they're individual offers. The post names three cities who were willing to disclose their offers. The other states,cities and districts either refused (for different reasons) to disclose anything or didn't bother to respond.

I've got an answer for any problem.

Panzer says, "Why do humans have all these big secrets from each other about what they're doing to woo Amazon? Everybody knows, nothing says I love you like a dead mouse on the pillow in the morning."

Note: This is a long post. Bring a thermos of tea and half a dozen muffins for today's reading selection.

To read the post tootle over to Amazon

Amazon to begin collecting sales taxes in Maine next month - Yahoo! Finance

Today's trip into the Catosphere took Panzer to the Yahoo! Finance site. There our kitty investigator found a post about Amazon.

It's not going to happen..

According to the Associated Press post, Amazon plans to begin collecting a 5.5 percent sales tax on all products sold to Maine residents. Businesses located in Maine and selling products there are required to collect the sales tax. The state wants businesses located outside the state boundaries to collect the same sales tax and Amazon has now agreed to do this.  Amazon also plans to begin collecting sales taxes in Hawaii, Idaho and New Mexico.

Panzer says, "Don't even start thinking about sales taxing my catnip ... or ... you'll be sorry."

Note: This is a short post. Bring a cup of tea for today's reading selection.

To read the post, tootle over to Amazon collecting Maine sales tax