Black Hole Picture Released
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[First ever black hole image released - BBC News](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47873592) "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Let me get this straight ... a picture of a black hole. In color. And it isn't black. Got it.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that... - Harvey
Yep that a picture of something that does not allow light to escape is event horizon. I think we need to read the article.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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[First ever black hole image released - BBC News](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47873592) "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
Black hole sun Won't you come And wash away the rain Black hole sun Won't you come Won't you come
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It's amazing how they got the picture -- by taking away everything that they've decided isn't what a black hole should look like. The sheer scope of the editing they carried out leaves the average photoshopper a gazillion light years behind.
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[First ever black hole image released - BBC News](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47873592) "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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well that's a waste of time... can get the same result faster from a quick glance in the toilet (after a successful visit). bonus (of sorts): sealion dying celine dion will be there too.
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Is this the front view? What would it look like if a picture is taken from the back or a side?
TOMZ_KV
That's what I've been wondering. Obviously there's no practical way to find out but wouldn't it be cool if it looked like that from every possible angle?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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That's what I've been wondering. Obviously there's no practical way to find out but wouldn't it be cool if it looked like that from every possible angle?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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We can only guess. Likely it looks similar from other angles if it is really formed from a dying star.
TOMZ_KV
Thinking about it, if the luminescence surrounds the black hole, then we should not be able to see through it into the blackness. What we have in the picture is a section through a black hole isn't it. Or are we lucky to be located just where there is a gap in the aura (or whatever it's called) from our point of view. I've got a headache... We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Er, yeah. And the difference, taken over that distance, is less than a hundred-thousand-billionth (in real billions , not the tiny US ones) of a millimetre -- to see around a succession of great big huge celestial bodies and dust clouds, the furthest of which are are really, really close to the whatever-it-is, and all of which are affecting the few photons we receive in different ways. All the rest is the equivalent of photoshopping. But go ahead, believe the bullsh1t... hype... very, very scientific explanation, if you want to
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Er, yeah. And the difference, taken over that distance, is less than a hundred-thousand-billionth (in real billions , not the tiny US ones) of a millimetre -- to see around a succession of great big huge celestial bodies and dust clouds, the furthest of which are are really, really close to the whatever-it-is, and all of which are affecting the few photons we receive in different ways. All the rest is the equivalent of photoshopping. But go ahead, believe the bullsh1t... hype... very, very scientific explanation, if you want to
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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[First ever black hole image released - BBC News](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47873592) "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
That's what a donut looks like to me befgore I put on my eyeglasses each morning.:cool:
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[First ever black hole image released - BBC News](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47873592) "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
And now, an even higher res picture I just found... https://twitter.com/kmote/status/1115991794678784000
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Thinking about it, if the luminescence surrounds the black hole, then we should not be able to see through it into the blackness. What we have in the picture is a section through a black hole isn't it. Or are we lucky to be located just where there is a gap in the aura (or whatever it's called) from our point of view. I've got a headache... We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
My own question answered... :) How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole - YouTube[^] We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
