BREAKING! New video released by NASA of distant #BlackHole Oh, wait.... So in February 2017 we were told this team was attempting to capture an image of a black hole 26,000 light years away, and two years later they ended up with a black hole 55,000,000 light years away instead? That's 2,115 times

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[–]Zombi 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They go over why they chose the black hole that was farther away. It has interesting properties due to how massive it is that the closer black hole does not. With the data from the photo taken of the larger one they can learn more about the nature of black holes than if they took a photo of the smaller one.

Also, this isn't the first time space and biology have common features; things tend to look very similar when you have a resolution of 100x100 due to the lack of detail.

I get you should question everything, but what on Earth is to be gained from faking this image? There are many scientists all over the globe that collaborated on this project with very little to actually gain besides further knowledge. Why would they fake it? It makes absolutely NO sense...

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think I'm going to have to downgrade my "half" estimate to "a third" – about a third of the stuff posted on this sub has a bearing in reality.

[–]zyxzevn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As I explained on the thunderbolts forum -link.
I don't think that the black hole donut has any scientific value.