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also a 29 year old female grad student helped make the algorithm that made the pic possible!

A grad student made the viral black hole photo possible

A white male wrote 850K of the 900K lines of code and everyone is giving the credit to the female. Total bullshit, but expected.

^^^bingo...

She certainly did help, but I think the media is really hyping her up while ignoring the other key contributors. Andrew Chael wrote a majority of the code.

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He ran out of white privilege and ultra male dominance at 850k.

Especially for an algorithm like this, not every line is code. He’s obviously smart and deserving, but a “line” is not necessarily code. A couple thousand lines from one coder can have more actual code than a hundred thousand likes from someone else.

Nonetheless, this is amazing lol.


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From reading on another site Mareki Honma should actually get most of the credit.

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Damn, reading more into this and the broad didn't contribute to the algorithm or the imaging. She wrote a subroutine that converted data from one format to another.

She wasn't the lead in any capacity, the leads were Kazunori Akiyama and Andrew Chael (the guy that wrote the bulk of it). Mareki Honma created the algorithm in 2012 and uploaded it to Github. Andrew Chael asked him for permission to use it and Mareki, along with a large team, helped them to adapt it.




There's a lot to go over here. But the bottom line here is that we were lied to about this chick. Her contribution to the overall project was insignificant
 

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Black holes happen when a star ten times the size of the sun run out of lighter elements. [..]
Our sun, which is about twice as large as the average star, will eventually compress into a ball of iron, a white dwarf about 11 miles in diameter.

One correction - our Sun's white dwarf remnant will be roughly 8000 miles in diameter. It's most of the mass of the sun, in iron form, compressed to the point where only the repulsion of electrons in individual atoms prevents further collapse.

11 miles in diameter would be a neutron star - that's what you get when an even larger star collapses, and the resulting gravitational pull is strong enough to overcome electron repulsion and pull the nuclei of the atoms together.
 

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One correction - our Sun's white dwarf remnant will be roughly 8000 miles in diameter. It's most of the mass of the sun, in iron form, compressed to the point where only the repulsion of electrons in individual atoms prevents further collapse.

11 miles in diameter would be a neutron star - that's what you get when an even larger star collapses, and the resulting gravitational pull is strong enough to overcome electron repulsion and pull the nuclei of the atoms together.
white dwarves, neutrons stars, can't ever keep it all straight in my head. Thank you!
 

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One correction - our Sun's white dwarf remnant will be roughly 8000 miles in diameter. It's most of the mass of the sun, in iron form, compressed to the point where only the repulsion of electrons in individual atoms prevents further collapse.

11 miles in diameter would be a neutron star - that's what you get when an even larger star collapses, and the resulting gravitational pull is strong enough to overcome electron repulsion and pull the nuclei of the atoms together.
Did you Google that? ;)
 

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I love to remind people that time is relative. One day on earth is not the same as a year calculated on another planet using the same scale as earth. Time is a calculation based on our orbit and rotation. When you take earth out of the equation, as well as all other planetary bodies, time does not really exist.

Someone will pop in and remind me about the speed of light, and the speed of sound, etc shortly. Even those things are measured by the hour, using the earth as a standard foundation.

Welcome to eternity.

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And depending on strong the gravity is. Stronger gravity, slower time lapse.


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Lmao me too. But like it was mentioned above, time is a measurement based on linear movement. Gravity affects that so, technically speaking, one’s head is SLIGHTLY older than one’s legs.


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And everything you see is in the past, never now. Because even something happening right in front of you? it still takes the light by which you see it some amount of time to reach your eyes.


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And everything you see is in the past, never now. Because even something happening right in front of you? it still takes the light by which you see it some amount of time to reach your eyes.


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I can talk about this all day, man lol. I love physics. Its universal for the most part — with the exception of said black holes and similar bodies.


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