First ever black hole image revealed

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By James Rogers | Fox News


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Scientists have released the first ever image of a black hole, revealing the distant object in stunning detail.

The groundbreaking discovery was made by the Event Horizon Telescope, an international project involving telescopes across the globe that describes itself as a “virtual Earth-sized telescope.” Telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, Chile, Mexico, Spain and the South Pole participated in the ambitious research project.

The black hole was spotted in a galaxy called M87 that is 55 million light years away. A light year, which measures distance in space, equals 6 trillion miles.

"We're delighted to report to you today that we have seen what we thought was unseeable," explained Dr. Shep Doeleman, director of the Event Horizon Telescope, during a press conference at the National Science Foundation Wednesday. "We have taken advantage of a cosmic opportunity."

"This was a Herculean task," explained National Science Foundation Director Dr. France Cordova, during the press conference, noting that the Event Horizon Telescope's findings transform and enhance our understanding of Black Holes.

“Black holes are extremely dense pockets of matter, objects of such incredible mass and miniscule volume that they drastically warp the fabric of space-time,” explains the National Science Foundation, on its website. “Anything that passes too close, from a wandering star to a photon of light, gets captured. Most black holes are the condensed remnants of a massive star, the collapsed core that remains following an explosive supernova.”

[DemonGeminiX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI6VPFQw6BU

[Hal-9000]

I saw that movie on acid when I was 15 :shock:

It was infinitely better the first time watching as opposed to my rewatch years later :lol:


Did anyone read the little snippet on matter/anti-matter from another story? In real basic terms it says matter and anti-matter have to be present in equivalent measurements in the universe. If that's true, how come we find so much more evidence of matter than anti-matter? Where is the rest of the anti-matter?

Dark matter is another matter entirely, but I do wonder if black holes hold the answer to this weird physics equation - matter must = anti-matter.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Fly that bitch into it, lets see what happens

[Hal-9000]

Fly that bitch into it, lets see what happens





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVlnER8SxfQ

[Muddy]

Pretty underwhelming..

[Hal-9000]

Pretty underwhelming..

What I find amazing is that we can take an image "that is 55 million light years away. A light year, which measures distance in space, equals 6 trillion miles."

55 x 6 trillion miles = picture

It's an argument I've brought up before. Everything about these pictures is conjecture based on other pictures and evidence they've viewed. We can't get anything close enough to a black hole to really understand what's happening with one. Even Hawking walked back some of his black hole theories and he was considered a top theoretical space physicist.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

What I find amazing is that we can take an image "that is 55 million light years away. A light year, which measures distance in space, equals 6 trillion miles."

55 x 6 trillion miles = picture

It's an argument I've brought up before. Everything about these pictures is conjecture based on other pictures and evidence they've viewed. We can't get anything close enough to a black hole to really understand what's happening with one. Even Hawking walked back some of his black hole theories and he was considered a top theoretical space physicist.

I just did the math for this :lol:

55 million light years comes out to be 330 quintillion miles (330,000,000,000,000,000,000)

If you take your car and drive at an average of 75mph, you could get to the black hole in just over 502 trillion years. :lol:

And no bathroom stops :hand:

[Hal-9000]

I just did the math for this :lol:

55 million light years comes out to be 330 quintillion miles (330,000,000,000,000,000,000)

If you take your car and drive at an average of 75mph, you could get to the black hole in just over 502 trillion years. :lol:

And no bathroom stops :hand:


:lol:


My little Windows calculator gave me that symbol for large numbers when I tried the math - FU-Q

[Teh One Who Knocks]

https://i.imgur.com/cAWEIOs.png

And just for perspective...

[Hal-9000]

https://i.imgur.com/cAWEIOs.png

And just for perspective...

:hand:

You're comparing time to distances...get off the reefer Sagan.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:hand:

You're comparing time to distances...get off the reefer Sagan.

:facepalm:

I said it would take 502 trillion years to get there by car. In comparison, the known universe is not even 14 billion years old.

Numpty :x :slap:

[Hal-9000]

:facepalm:

I said it would take 502 trillion years to get there by car. In comparison, the known universe is not even 14 billion years old.

Numpty :x :slap:

I understood that part. It would take longer to travel to the black hole than the time the universe has existed.

So what...I watched a television show with the commercials left in yesterday and it seemed like forever [-(

[DemonGeminiX]

When you're taking a picture that far away, you're actually looking back in time.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

When you're taking a picture that far away, you're actually looking back in time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsKbwR7WXN4

[fricnjay]

I love how these nutsacks (scientist) can take a picture from 55 million light years away and tell me "oh yea that is a black hole". But we cant identify a person from a damn doorbell camera from 5 feet away. Picture is probably a picture an alien is holding up of his asshole. :roll:

[Godfather]

This vid puts it a bit more into perspective how impressive this image is, and the implications it has for proving some of our theories about physics.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l29wCKkQpMg

[Godfather]

Worth considering too... imagine what we'll see in another 20-30 years!

https://i.redd.it/6qn9yqaynir21.jpg

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Brie Stimson | Fox News


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Katie Bouman reacted modestly to her sudden celebrity status this week, but the scientist whose graduate school work helped lead to the first image of a black hole Wednesday, is getting her due.

Bouman, who is an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences at Cal Tech, created an algorithm during grad school at MIT that made the image possible.

The 29-year-old worked with MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the MIT Haystack Observatory and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics for the last several years, leading to the development of the algorithm.
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The image of the black hole was captured from 55 million lights years away (one light year is equal to six trillion miles) in galaxy Messier 87.

The discovery was made by Event Horizon Telescope, an international project that describes itself as a “virtual Earth-sized telescope.”

Black holes have a mass 6.5 billion times that of the sun and "drastically warp the fabric of space-time," the National Science Foundation says on its website.

“3 years ago MIT grad student Katie Bouman led the creation of a new algorithm to produce the first-ever image of a black hole,” MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab tweeted Wednesday. “Today, that image was released.”
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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."
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Bouman, who posted a photo on Facebook of her reaction to seeing her work come to fruition, responded modestly.

“No one of us could’ve done it alone,” she told CNN. “It came together because of lots of different people from many different backgrounds.”

While she was a graduate student at MIT, Bouman led the development of the algorithm that helped capture the first-of-a-kind image, working with a team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the MIT Haystack Observatory. She also led testing over the last few years to verify the image.

She’s now an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences at the California Institute of Technology.

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https://i.imgur.com/YfKkjzc.jpg

[Muddy]

I bet that thing is HUGE.....^^

[Noilly Pratt]

I do think that this discovery will lead to big things up ahead in exploration. The space geek in me is happy. I also am loving all the humourous stuff that's happening as well..

Exhibit A
http://cdn.cavemancircus.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2019/april/too_true_2/funny_memes_18.jpg