Images of a Black Hole

[NY65912]

Holy moly! Actual images of a Black Hole. This is a monumental confirmation of Einstein's prediction.
Yeah science!

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/black-hole-first-picture-event-horizon-telescope

[Jims5543]

Black Holes are like Bigfoot, when you finally see one, you must use the worst camera possible.

[pwd72s]

I expected a photo of congress, with $$$$$ being sucked in.

[Jim Richards]

Reminds me, it's been a while since I've had a donut.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

[Clint Lando]

not black grey

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by NY65912

Holy moly! Actual images of a Black Hole. This is a monumental confirmation of Einstein's prediction.
Yeah science!

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/black-hole-first-picture-event-horizon-telescope

I had to find another source to flush out some of the meaning in that article including the caption.

Event Horizon and Accretion Disk
https://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/topics_blackholes_event.html

Material, such as gas, dust and other stellar debris that has come close to a black hole but not quite fallen into it, forms a flattened band of spinning matter around the event horizon called the accretion disk (or disc). Although no-one has ever actually seen a black hole or even its event horizon, this accretion disk can be seen, because the spinning particles are accelerated to tremendous speeds by the huge gravity of the black hole, releasing heat and powerful x-rays and gamma rays out into the universe as they smash into each other.

These accretion disks are also known as quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources).

It looks pretty much like they thought it would.

I'm still a bit puzzled by the use of the word "shadow" though.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/black-hole-first-picture-event-horizon-telescope

INTO THE ABYSS The first image of a black hole shows a bright ring with a dark, central spot. That ring is a bright disk of gas orbiting the supermassive behemoth in the galaxy M87, and the spot is the black hole’s shadow.

So they think this angle is the backside of the black hole and not the front side?

Is there a front and a back, or is it Omnidirectionall?

[Gogar]

It's all quite simple really

[KFC911]

I thought I saw a puddy cat...

[LWJ]

Cool.

[tabs]

I thought you had photos from my last proctolgists report.

[ckelly78z]

Originally Posted by tabs

I thought you had photos from my last proctolgists report.

Butt do you have an orbiting ring of gas around yours ?

[911_Dude]

It looked better on the Interstellar movie. Focus people!

[billybek]

Originally Posted by tabs

I thought you had photos from my last proctolgists report.

Burnin ring of fire?

[sc_rufctr]

Woo... It's a great time to be alive!

[Seahawk]

Am I the only one that thinks that it is grant money time for the The Event Horizon Telescope Team?

Better article, especially the Notes section: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/

An angular resolution of 20 micro-arcseconds isn't free, folks.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by 911_Dude

It looked better on the Interstellar movie. Focus people!

Showed my buddy Saturn through a telescope. He pulls up Saturn on his night sky application on his IPad. He says this one is bigger, what's the big deal?

[Clint Lando]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Am I the only one that thinks that it is grant money time for the The Event Horizon Telescope Team?

Better article, especially the Notes section: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/

An angular resolution of 20 micro-arcseconds isn't free, folks.

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[Rickysa]

[Rusty Heap]

"Petabyte(s) of data were collected for supercomputers to chew on......


I had to google how much a PETABYTE of memory is, That a million Gigabytes folks.

1,000,000 Gig