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Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole(cdn.eso.org)

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HorseMeat 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

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

zyxzevn 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

That's interesting...

zyxzevn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

Wow! Thank you for posting!

magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

Ah interesting.

[deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

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

Zombi 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

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

Jesus 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

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 years ago

black hole

Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

It's not exactly the same, just similar.

Jesus 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun 5 years ago

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

zyxzevn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

Obligatory

zyxzevn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

Go on...

Yhvr 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

Damn, That looks cool!

mushyquivufeck 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

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

GetOffMyLawn789 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

Looks like it's burning.

HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

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