https://www.bbc.com/news/science-env...5dsCn8pEpmzY34
BBC did a decent job breaking this down for those of us who really don't know much about astrophysics, and what this project entailed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-env...5dsCn8pEpmzY34
BBC did a decent job breaking this down for those of us who really don't know much about astrophysics, and what this project entailed.
Ultracrepidarian
Exactly what we expected to see, which is very reassuring.
We are but specks of dust.
Hawkings would love to see this.
...so when i look into some lights and then shut my eyes.. got it
For those confused as to what you're seeing and why the asymmetry of the image is crucial veritasium has a decent layman's explanation.
Eye of Sauron
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What an incredible feat though, very cool.
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This was pretty exciting...I've been tracking the progress of the project for about the last 5 years or something. ( listen to a lot of cosmology and physics podcasts).
They should just hand these guys the nobel prize right now.
So. It is flat right?
DXY 100
This is so awesome.
What's really exciting is years from now we'll look back at this and laugh at how "simple" this accomplishment was cause scientists will be photographing them more frequently and with better results. I remember when they first announced they discovered exoplanets and now they've found thousands of them.
I don't think so. This is vastly more complicated than what kepler was doing...and imo a much bigger deal than the exoplanet discoveries.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
There also are fewer candidate black holes for us to look at.
So awesome. I'm really interested to see what they bring us regarding black holes in our own galaxy next.
Anyone else going to watch the Israeli drone moon landing tomorrow afternoon? It's broadcasting live Thursday early afternoon sometime online.
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The only black hole in our galaxy that we can look at is the supermassive on at the centre...SagA*.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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The accretion disk is caused by the plasma created by infalling gas and dust into the BH. Things don't fall straight in, for the most part, they spiral at nearly the speed of light. The actual photons that are arriving at your eye can be directly radiated from this accretion disk, or they can be photons that have "wrapped" around the BH either directly or after a half an orbit. To say no one knows is a bit weird, since almost ALL of this was predicted by Einstein's equations.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
So black holes are donuts.
I can eat more hot wings than you.
That explains why they make all these people gonuts.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Once again another useless post by JRSCOOLDUDE.
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I see, I didn't know that there was just one they could observe like this - going to be interesting to see this one regardless.The only black hole in our galaxy that we can look at is the supermassive on at the centre...SagA*.
So is it just the matter/gas/etc being pulled in by the gravity of the black hole at the accretion disk reflecting light from another source/star, or is it creating light we can observe in these pics itself by some other phenomenon or method?The accretion disk is caused by the plasma created by infalling gas and dust into the BH. Things don't fall straight in, for the most part, they spiral at nearly the speed of light. The actual photons that are arriving at your eye can be directly radiated from this accretion disk, or they can be photons that have "wrapped" around the BH either directly or after a half an orbit. To say no one knows is a bit weird, since almost ALL of this was predicted by Einstein's equations.
Buster, are you into telescopes/observing things yourself in addition to all your knowledge regarding this? If so, I've been considering getting a really good scope/camera setup to do some backyard type stuff with, and could use help/advice.
Einstein was truly incredible, I've read a number of books about him recently, and a bunch of his own letters and writings. He had a son that was schizophrenic and had many other mental problems, hard to believe that in one generation's separation you can have one of the most brilliant men on earth, and his one son ending up having a lot of mental issues. His other son was a pretty brilliant scientist too. Anyhow, Einstein has been proven right - again. His theory of general relativity has been proven correct twice now in the past few years. Incredible that without all the tech we have today, he could have so accurately predicted spacetime and gravity they way he did.
I find the 5,000 terabytes of data that this image took to be a real mindfck as well. Such interesting and incredible thing happening now.
Last edited by Gman.45; 04-11-2019 at 12:14 AM.