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 grad student made the viral black hole photo possible
All jokes aside, this is insane.
Yeah.Thanks for sharing. Worth the watch. Mind. Blown.
And that’s the NON-spinning one?!
Clearly you can see black holes are flat like the earth and all other celestial bodies. Rejoice!
Very cool. What are those? A vacuum of a dead star or something much more complex? I know nothing of them.
I remember when they first started talking about this, they were supposed to also photograph sagittarius A*. Any idea what happened with that? I would imagine it being 2500 times closer, even with it being smaller, the resolution of the disc should be better. Maybe the interstellar dust cloud made it too difficult to capture?
You're actually closer to being correct with the assertion the hole is flat than you are about the planet. In theory the singularity is an infinitely small point in space. As such it has no shape. So it might as well be called flat as anything else.
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A white male wrote 850K of the 900K lines of code and everyone is giving the credit to the female. Total bullshit, but expected.
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.I still get “brain trips” thinking about:
-how the images/stars/etc... that we are seeing now, are actually “x” years old by the time the light travels and is observed here on Earth.
-that space is infinite
-scale, the computer models that show earth, then zoom out to our sun, and then continue to zoom out 15 more times for even larger celestial objects
-time not being totaly linear
That, my friend, is awesome! LOL.
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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Black holes happen when a star ten times the size of the sun run out of lighter elements. The resulting mass of the star, without enough heat to keep it propped up, contracts and becomes more dense.
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. It isn't big enough to go nova or supernova.
Between the sun and stars up to ten times our sun, when the fire goes out, the star collapses into something even more strange: a neutron star.
Now, while our sun is twice the size of the average star, it's still just a firecracker next to an H-Bomb, because many stars out there are far larger! And when those fires go out, it collapses into a black hole. Something we really do not fully understand, yet. It's black, because any light hitting it can't reflect back to us. The light we do see, here, is from the gas swirling around it getting pulled in. It gets super compressed and heated and glows.
There's a whole bunch more, I could go on for ages about this stuff.
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I still get “brain trips” thinking about:
-how the images/stars/etc... that we are seeing now, are actually “x” years old by the time the light travels and is observed here on Earth.
-that space is infinite
-scale, the computer models that show earth, then zoom out to our sun, and then continue to zoom out 15 more times for even larger celestial objects
-time not being totaly linear