What it took to collect these 54-million-year-old photons from a supermassive black hole.
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This is an updated version of a video we published in 2016 about the Event Horizon Telescope, an international collaboration to image a black hole for the first time in human history.
On April 10, 2019, the team announced their results: They had successfully imaged the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy m87, which is nearly 54 million light-years away from us. They were able to achieve unprecedented resolution using very long baseline interferometry, which combines the observations of multiple radio telescopes across the globe.
The team wanted to find out whether Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity holds up in the extreme environment of black holes, and the results do, in fact, seem to be consistent with the predictions. In the future, we may see more and shaper images of black holes as the team targets smaller wavelengths of light and recruits more telescopes. Eventually, they may include an orbiting space telescope.
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My teachers cosine is the discoverer of that black hole
That black hole is in a different galaxy in that to to to to to far away not even one black hole will reach us it's impossible. There's lots of planets in other galixys but it might keep growing if stars break we have to know this because if you do get sucked into a black hole you can't breath well you wouldn't want what because that's in a another galixy I'm suprised that a little telescope would capture millions in millions away in I'm kid I'm surprised that I'm this stuff but it would be better if I did then not
Can you make a video about The world corruption free, and what happen each country economy and peoples lovelihood. Can poverty decline?
It’s not a picture
It only took minutes before it is made into a meme.
An “Unseeable” Black Hole
Black holes are "invisible". The first image of this black hole is blurry.
It looks similar to nuclear medical imaging of the short axis of the heart!
Black hole is like a demonrat, it takes everything you feed it and never gives in return.
If Only Stephen Hawking Lived One More Year.
WTF? It's no "image" at all. Using a histogram? To estimate the diameter? This is complete BS! Nothing more than a fuzzy CGI that is now being passed onto the world to justify the cost. $19,300,000 for a best guess fuzzy computer generated image? Again, I say WTF? Will you nerds please explain to someone who clearly isn't as smart as you, why this is nothing more than science fiction, and why using "innovative algorithms" that create an image that isn't real, is an achievement?
You need to check your "facts". I am not going to make it easy for you. Do your own RESEARCH & see if you can find out what MISINFORMATION that you are spreading.
"Nothing moves faster than speed of light " she says .
Has she not heard of Warp Drives , I ask ? 🙂
the black hole we captured is Super massive black hole or other?
The effort they put just to capture the first image is damn hard
Me: OMG THE FIRST BLACK HOLE IMAGE!!
Girls: …Ew that's the worst pic quality ever
Meh
why big deal? because its the biggest hole in the universe
WAIT THIS IS REAL???
Why do you say centuries ago, it has been barley 1
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hm,when you explain it like that,it is outstanding that we can even get a picture at all.
Is this video from the future? Because from where I'm watching 1916 is not "centuries ago".
This was a Japanese team that made this find. No mention?
obviously fake
This presentation is best viewed alongside something like "Wallace Thornhill: Black Hole or Plasmoid?"
Light:*Travelling*
BlackHole:*NOM NOM NOM*
This is a unbelievable photo. They made a Blurry photo from that far! The photo would be a black screen with little dots on it, if our technology wasn’t as great as now. That photo was taken from 513,000,000,000,000,000,000km!