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First ever black hole image released
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RE: First ever black hole image released
April 10, 2019 at 7:22 pm
(April 10, 2019 at 1:32 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Nice.  Kinda impossible to appreciate the real size if that thing.

That's what SHE said.

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RE: First ever black hole image released
April 10, 2019 at 7:23 pm
(April 10, 2019 at 6:14 pm)chimp3 Wrote:
(April 10, 2019 at 1:32 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Nice.  Kinda impossible to appreciate the real size if that thing.

One fb post showed a diagram with our sun in the center of the black hole and the Voyager 1 at the right edge.

I've seen diagrams with V'ger barely into the donut.
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RE: First ever black hole image released
April 10, 2019 at 8:01 pm
(April 10, 2019 at 7:23 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(April 10, 2019 at 6:14 pm)chimp3 Wrote: One fb post showed a diagram with our sun in the center of the black hole and the Voyager 1 at the right edge.

I've seen diagrams with V'ger barely into the donut.
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RE: First ever black hole image released
April 10, 2019 at 8:38 pm (This post was last modified: April 10, 2019 at 8:39 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 10, 2019 at 10:19 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: First ever black hole image released

Nice work by everone involved    Great

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47873592

To the BBC science writer:

That is not the image of the black hole.  It is the image of the accretion disk around the black hole.  Black hole by definition can’t be imaged. It would have the same effect on any imaging sensor as if it was not there. Saying the image of the accretion disk is the image of the black hole is like saying an image of Pluto is an image of the sun.
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RE: First ever black hole image released
April 10, 2019 at 8:46 pm
Can you see a donut hole? 😛
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RE: First ever black hole image released
April 10, 2019 at 9:17 pm
Call me an unromantic a miserable cunt but: Yip Zibberdy Fucking Dee.
So what? We know what they are, we know where they are and we know what they do. So why all this...

[Image: _94262988_img_0929.jpg]
 
Caption reads. "The data was stored on hundreds of hard drives which were flown to a central processing centre. There was too much of it to be sent over the internet."

And this...

[Image: _106397237_blackhole_telescope_640-nc.png]

To give us this...

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YIKTIMTITTATPIFTSOC.

Fuck sake!!!
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RE: First ever black hole image released
April 10, 2019 at 10:16 pm
(April 10, 2019 at 9:17 pm)Succubus Wrote: Call me an unromantic a miserable cunt but: Yip Zibberdy Fucking Dee.
So what? We know what they are, we know where they are and we know what they do. So why all this...

[Image: _94262988_img_0929.jpg]
 
Caption reads. "The data was stored on hundreds of hard drives which were flown to a central processing centre. There was too much of it to be sent over the internet."

And this...

[Image: _106397237_blackhole_telescope_640-nc.png]

To give us this...

O

YIKTIMTITTATPIFTSOC.

Fuck sake!!!

I know, right?  I mean, it isn't as if all that work got them...I dunno...a video of and ELECTRON or something.

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RE: First ever black hole image released
April 11, 2019 at 4:23 am
I actually took a photo of a black hole but I was so close it sucked my camera in!
Sorry, you'll just have to take my word for it. You all know I'm good for it.

But really, .............it was nothing.
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RE: First ever black hole image released
April 11, 2019 at 4:27 am
(April 10, 2019 at 10:19 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: First ever black hole image released

Nice work by everone involved    Great

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47873592

There was a thread somewhere where a theist said about thinking black holes are a thing that we'd "never actually SEEN a black hole and we just believe in them on faith" who was that?



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RE: First ever black hole image released
April 11, 2019 at 5:37 am
(April 11, 2019 at 4:27 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:
(April 10, 2019 at 10:19 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: First ever black hole image released

Nice work by everone involved    Great

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47873592

There was a thread somewhere where a theist said about thinking black holes are a thing that we'd "never actually SEEN a black hole and we just believe in them on faith" who was that?

Now, if ths theists could just produce a picture of their god...

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