Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole

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[–]HorseMeat 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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

[–]zyxzevn 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I find this one much more interesting. https://i.imgur.com/ECW0T45.jpg
It has foreground and background.
I assume that this image is generated out the same data?

Addition: The full image is a real image, but the black spot is only a marked pixel. In reality it is not visible.

The donut is produced from the interference of many different signals from different telescopes. The focus was established from statistics. With the different signals they tried to look behind the plasma, and to enhance the resolution of the image.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's interesting...

[–]zyxzevn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I learned that it is different data. The black pixel is a marker, not black at all. But it would be great to be able to zoom out from the donut, to the level that we see here. Now it is just an ghostly image with no direct context.

[–]SecretlyHistoric 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wow! Thank you for posting!

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

From another article it said they needed 5PB of data to make that image... it's impressive. And kind of funny that 5PB compresses down to this one blurry jpg. But I guess that's what happens when you're witnessing new frontiers.

[–]Zombi 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's actually a VERY big and detailed image. The black hole is just a literal pinprick on a huuuuuuuge picture of everything surrounding it.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah interesting.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This picture is way cooler than the close up one they're pushing

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

I know, right?! It's absolutely mindbogglingly HUGE! That black hole is like... the size of hundreds of billions of our sun. That picture is showing something so gigantic and breathtaking... it's beautiful and honestly terrifying in a way.

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

Black hole, or cardiac perfusion scan image.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D33elf1X4AAO_uS.jpg

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

Damn really, is that why it took them 2 years to release it?

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

LOL, looks fake as crap.

HUH... this is a scan of the heart-- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D33elf1X4AAO_uS.jpg

This is too

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D33elf1XoAAv-yQ.jpg

Black hole, or cardiac perfusion scan image.

[–]Zombi 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Uhh, please stop making literally everything into a conspiracy. You're detracting from the actual progress that has been made when you do this.

[–]HopeThatHalps 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

black hole

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The 2nd link and 1st are not a black hole, but is exact match to this picture of a so called black hole, exactly what NASA, 'never a straight answer' is showing you. So many people eating up this picture hole from @NASA I guess you can be shown anything on tv and you will believe it. Mass amounts of people would accept the earth being flat if TV told them it was flat. This is how easily conditioned americans are.

BUT, I still could be a black hole... I just need more proof.

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's not exactly the same, just similar.

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

One of these is the Black Hole image released yesterday. The other three are cardiac PET scan images

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D34UnT4XoAA7n7V.jpg

[–]HopeThatHalps 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

None of them are identical, they're merely alike. A thermal imager can easily create a similar image as well, it doesnt mean thats what happened. If someone wanted to create a blurry round circle is would not be difficult. This isn't the 1970's, we're not photographing plates tossed up in the air and pretending it's a UFO.

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

You could be right.

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

What do these images mean? And where did you get them?
They look like the simulated variants.

[–]Vigte 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Obligatory

[–]zyxzevn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

How can we look at this picture for so long,
without talking about Uranus.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Go on...

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

Damn, That looks cool!

[–]mushyquivufeck 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I found that this video does a good job of explaining the picture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUyH3XhpLTo&t=2s

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

That guy is great. His two videos on how magnets work is incredible.

[–]GetOffMyLawn789 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Looks like it's burning.

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

What a bummer that Stephen Hawking died barely a year before this picture was taken.