BBC: First ever black hole image released

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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.
First ever black hole image released
 

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This is absolutely amazing. Very hard to wrap my brain around this concept. So powerful not even light can escape it? Simply amazing.


That's because black holes are notoriously hard to see. Their gravity is so extreme that nothing, not even light, can escape across the boundary at a black hole's edge, known as the event horizon. But some black holes, especially supermassive ones dwelling in galaxies’ centers, stand out by voraciously accreting bright disks of gas and other material. The EHT image reveals the shadow of M87’s black hole on its accretion disk. Appearing as a fuzzy, asymmetrical ring, it unveils for the first time a dark abyss of one of the universe’s most mysterious objects.
 

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Makes me sad that Stephen Hawking wasn't able to see this.
 

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Veritasium nailed it with yesterday's video. Fascinating viewing bending your mind around this

 

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This is very cool! It looks eerily similar to other black holes I’ve seen.

It’s hard for me to wrap my head around something 6.5 billion times the size of the sun when the sun weighs 333,000 times as much as earth.
 

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Re: Scientists get first ever picture of a black hole

To be more accurate, it's the picture of the event horizon of a black hole. I haven't looked at the video above, but that may be explained...
 

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That is an excellent video. I had wondered why it would present as a disk, when it's obviously a sphere and, then, after seeing it, why it was brighter on one side. It's an optical illusion in the truest sense of the word. It's amazing how closely they nailed what it was going to look like...
 

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That is an excellent video. I had wondered why it would present as a disk, when it's obviously a sphere and, then, after seeing it, why it was brighter on one side. It's an optical illusion in the truest sense of the word. It's amazing how closely they nailed what it was going to look like...
That's probably the craziest part of this to me. Pretty incredible.
 

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That is an excellent video. I had wondered why it would present as a disk, when it's obviously a sphere and, then, after seeing it, why it was brighter on one side. It's an optical illusion in the truest sense of the word. It's amazing how closely they nailed what it was going to look like...
awesome when predictions based on well reasoned study and the scientific method come true isn't it?
 

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Who has the Ring? We must destroy the one ring to rule them all. Sauron is coming!!!!

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Re: Scientists get first ever picture of a black hole

awesome when predictions based on well reasoned study and the scientific method come true isn't it?
It is. However, sometimes more knowledge comes in the end from nasty surprises... :D
 

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