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    Default First ever black hole image released

    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-env...5dsCn8pEpmzY34

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    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.
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    Exactly what we expected to see, which is very reassuring.

    We are but specks of dust.

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    Hawkings would love to see this.

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    ...so when i look into some lights and then shut my eyes.. got it

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    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.


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    Quote Originally Posted by BavarianBeast View Post
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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.

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    So. It is flat right?
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by D'z Nutz View Post
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    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.

    There also are fewer candidate black holes for us to look at.

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    This is amazing. This is huge for science.

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Gman.45 View Post
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    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.
    The only black hole in our galaxy that we can look at is the supermassive on at the centre...SagA*.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sugarphreak View Post
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    I actually thought this was known? It isn't known?

    I've read that the light surrounding the black hole is created from the massive friction generated by particles being crushed together at different velocities while they spiral in a decaying orbit into it


    Also that they suspect that Quasars are actually just super massive black holes that are creating so much friction by orbiting mass that it fountains energy out of them
    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.

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    So black holes are donuts.
    I can eat more hot wings than you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CompletelyNumb View Post
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    So black holes are donuts.
    That explains why they make all these people gonuts.
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    The only black hole in our galaxy that we can look at is the supermassive on at the centre...SagA*.
    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 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.
    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?

    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.
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