Astronomers Release First Actual Photo of Black Hole

[Chance]

Black holes have been imaged / detected indirectly for quite a while now, but astronomers have finally taken an actual photo of one. From BBC News (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47873592):


Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy.

It measures 40 billion km across - three million times the size of the Earth - and has been described by scientists as "a monster".

The black hole is 500 million trillion km away and was photographed by a network of eight telescopes across the world.

Details have been published today in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Prof Heino Falcke, of Radboud University in the Netherlands, who proposed the experiment, told BBC News that the black hole was found in a galaxy called M87.

"What we see is larger than the size of our entire Solar System," he said.

"It has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun. And it is one of the heaviest black holes that we think exists. It is an absolute monster, the heavyweight champion of black holes in the Universe."

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Whoa.

[blues]

At least it's smiling...for the moment. ;)

[Prdator]

So its kinda like a Black Box is orange.... ;)

[TiroFijo]

Scary thing...

[entropy]

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[Robinson]

Reminds me of my brain scan.

[Chance]

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[einherjarvalk]

A rare glimpse into the mind of AOC.

[blues]

A rare glimpse into the mind of AOC.

Uh, no. Nothing escapes a black hole. On the other hand, most things seem to escape AOC. ;)

[Medusa]

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[rotorhead1026]

It’ll soon disappear, filled up by millions of missing socks.

[the Schwartz]

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[rathos]

Weird, I have been looking at black holes on the internet for the past 20 years or so...

[entropy]

It’ll soon disappear, filled up by millions of missing socks.


My absolute favorite Ren & Stimpy episode....

“So THAT’s where they all go!!”

[RoyGBiv]

I enjoyed reading this back-story today. Thought it was worth sharing....

Katie Bouman is the 29-year-old scientist behind first image of black hole (https://www.foxnews.com/science/katie-bouman-29-year-old-scientist-behind-first-real-image-of-black-hole-goes-viral)


In another tweet, the lab added, "Scientist Katie Bouman just posted about the moment when 'the first image I ever made of a black hole' was processed. Just to clarify, this was the first image *ANYONE EVER MADE* of a black hole."

Caption : "Joy"
https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1116035007406116864/photo/1

[RoyGBiv]

^^^ Adding to the above....

Here's a TEDx from 2016 where she explains how she PLANS to get it done.
Skip to about 5:00 for the how-to, unless you like watching attractive nerdy women talk tech.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=P7n2rYt9wfU

ETA: Here's the official announcement and some reactions.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNGBIC1zq8c

[Paul D]

Looks like anterior wall ischemia. Only @YKV will know what the hell I'm talking about.

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[Stephanie B]

It’ll soon disappear, filled up by millions of missing socks.

And Trump's tax returns.....

[RoyGBiv]

And Trump's tax returns.....

And Hillary's emails.

[jtcarm]

And Hillary's emails.

And Schiffs evidence of collusion.

[WOLFIE]

This reminds me of a very old science fiction movie called the Blackhole.... I am pretty sure that is the name. A unique giant spaceship was able to stay close to the blackhole; I do not remember why they wanted to be close to it.

One of the heroes in the movie was a small robot that could shoot really well. I think he used two guns. A bad guy was a large robot that had superior technology.... and it was mean. It was a cool movie for the time period.

[mtnbkr]

This reminds me of a very old science fiction movie called the Blackhole.... I am pretty sure that is the name. A unique giant spaceship was able to stay close to the blackhole; I do not remember why they wanted to be close to it.

One of the heroes in the movie was a small robot that could shoot really well. I think he used two guns. A bad guy was a large robot that had superior technology.... and it was mean. It was a cool movie for the time period.

I remember that movie. It was by Disney and terrible.

Chris

[OlongJohnson]

watching attractive nerdy women talk tech.

One of the best things in the world...

[RoyGBiv]

One of the best things in the world...
Yep. Sign me up.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

I vaguely remember that when the term was being made popular in the West, Russian scientists were amused as the direct translation of black hole into Russian was viewed as a sexual term. Don't know if this is true.

[Gun Mutt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzUJJKDa558

[That Guy]

This reminds me of a very old science fiction movie called the Blackhole.... I am pretty sure that is the name. A unique giant spaceship was able to stay close to the blackhole; I do not remember why they wanted to be close to it.

One of the heroes in the movie was a small robot that could shoot really well. I think he used two guns. A bad guy was a large robot that had superior technology.... and it was mean. It was a cool movie for the time period.

I think nostalgia has colored your memories of this movie. I watched it relatively recently and the ending was terrible.

[WOLFIE]

I think nostalgia has colored your memories of this movie. I watched it relatively recently and the ending was terrible.

I think you are right. It is nostalgia.