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https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/04/10/world/black-hole-photo-scn/index.html

 

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This is the first photo of a black hole

By Ashley Strickland, CNN

Updated at 10:24 AM ET, Wed April 10, 2019

(CNN) — In April 2017, scientists used a global network of telescopes to see and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole, according to an announcement by researchers at the National Science Foundation Wednesday morning. They captured an image of the supermassive black hole and its shadow at the center of a galaxy known as M87.


This is the first direct visual evidence that black holes exist, the researchers said.


The massive galaxy, called Messier 87 or M87, is near the Virgo galaxy cluster 55 million light-years from Earth. The supermassive black hole has a mass that is 6.5 billion times that of our sun.


"We have seen what we thought was unseeable," said Sheperd Doeleman, director of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. "We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole."

 

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2 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

What I'm curious about is, shouldn't the light around the event horizon be 3 dimensional, like a ball with an empty core?  If so, how are we able to see the inside when there should be light on the side facing us?

 

The black hole is spinning so the ring is the accretion disk, (the stuff that has been captured gravitationally and is "falling into" the black hole). The brighter portion is the side of the ring spinning towards us and the darker portion the side spinning away from us. Also note that this is a black hole at the center of another galaxy.

 

It's really really big.

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2 minutes ago, DoobieWah said:

 

The black hole is spinning so the ring is the accretion disk, (the stuff that has been captured gravitationally and is "falling into" the black hole). The brighter portion is the side of the ring spinning towards us and the darker portion the side spinning away from us. Also note that this is a black hole at the center of another galaxy.

 

It's really really big.

So red shift? 

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59 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

Amended.

My impression of the startling discovery:  the universe = this:

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The theological significance of this is INCREDIBLE.  I mean, this changes everything.  Those of you doubters, you heretics....ADMIT THAT YOU WERE WRONG.  Kneel before the one true God....

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5 minutes ago, DoobieWah said:

 

The black hole is spinning so the ring is the accretion disk, (the stuff that has been captured gravitationally and is "falling into" the black hole). The brighter portion is the side of the ring spinning towards us and the darker portion the side spinning away from us. Also note that this is a black hole at the center of another galaxy.

 

It's really really big.

So the accretion disk is necessarily on a flat plane, like Saturn's rings? 

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3 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Black holes are spinning (I thought) so that makes sense.

I watched a little of the live broadcast, and one of the speakers said that there are spinning and non-spinning versions. I couldn't tell you any more than that about it.

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Just now, retread said:

I watched a little of the live broadcast, and one of the speakers said that there are spinning and non-spinning versions. I couldn't tell you any more than that about it.

Interesting, I'd think the only way the accretion disc would remain flat is if it's spinning.

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2 hours ago, 52-80 said:

alexa tells me that that's 52 million light years away.  so the image is old as fuck.  so that thing at present time has probably grown big and black ass hell, right?  basically  like wesley snipe's butthole

Take it to the "brush with greatness" thread.

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2 hours ago, 52-80 said:

alexa tells me that that's 52 million light years away.  so the image is old as fuck.  so that thing at present time has probably grown big and black ass hell, right?  basically  like wesley snipe's butthole

Hey, smartass, if that image is so old, how come it's not in black and white?

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