I'm sure you've all seen this a hundred times today
But this is the first image of a black hole's event horizon, and it looks just like our simulations.  Further down in this article there's a comparison of the simulation and the actual image. https://physicsworld.com/a/first-images-of-a-black-hole-unveiled-by-astronomers-in-landmark-discovery/ Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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that is an old pic :-)
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman |
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Rong: you've seen only Simulations, before.
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its 55 million years old
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman |
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True.
From elsewhere: the light from this black hole took 55 million years to not get here. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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:-)
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman |
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? I know the news cycle is quick these days, but this morning hardly counts as "old"...
Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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Wanna play Black Hole Bingo? Sci. Fri.
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The Eye of Sauron! :)
It's an amazing collaborative effort! Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov |
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Others have noted the 'Orange-ness' shading within.. a Galactic-scale of Evul? {shudder}
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Behind the image
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/12/heliumfilled_disk_drives_stored_black_hole_data/ among other The low ambient air density at the telescope sites necessitated sealed, helium-filled hard drives, both for the system disk for recorders and also in all the data recording modules. Ordinary air-filled drives crashed when tried out in 2015; the air was too thin to provide the cushion needed to support the heads. and how it stacks up to going to the moon ;-) https://twitter.com/BBCEarth/status/1116280359887486977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw |
I'm sure you've all seen this a hundred times today
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- April 10, 2019, 12:27:12 PM EDT
that is an old pic :-)
-NT
- (boxley)
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- April 10, 2019, 07:29:46 PM EDT
Rong: you've seen only Simulations, before.
-NT
- (Ashton)
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- April 10, 2019, 08:56:04 PM EDT
its 55 million years old
-NT
- (boxley)
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- April 11, 2019, 09:19:04 AM EDT
True.
- (malraux)
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- April 11, 2019, 10:09:42 AM EDT
:-)
-NT
- (boxley)
- April 11, 2019, 12:59:30 PM EDT
? I know the news cycle is quick these days, but this morning hardly counts as "old"...
-NT
- (malraux)
- April 10, 2019, 10:17:53 PM EDT
Wanna play Black Hole Bingo? Sci. Fri.
- (Ashton)
- April 10, 2019, 09:00:41 PM EDT
The Eye of Sauron! :)
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- April 11, 2019, 11:08:38 PM EDT
Others have noted the 'Orange-ness' shading within.. a Galactic-scale of Evul? {shudder}
-NT
- (Ashton)
- April 11, 2019, 11:54:54 PM EDT
Behind the image
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- April 12, 2019, 08:06:36 PM EDT
