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First ever black hole image released

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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.)
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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!!!
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
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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



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

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RE: First ever black hole image released
April 11, 2019 at 5:37 am

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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