This is what a black hole looks like

[Mojo Hand 4580]

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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[SwanderedTalent 5761]

in before first "none more black" joke

[phdhorn 6224]

7 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

in before first "none more black" or "Hope Solo" jokes

Amended.

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

Edited April 10, 2019 by phdhorn

[Js1 85583]

[F250 28823]

 

[Longhornfan1024 1707]

Sauron?

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4977]

Any indication of why the accretion disk is brighter on the one side? Just the angle we caught it at or what?

[RamjetFDO 10578]

Space, you scary.

Spoiler

 

[Native Horn 3516]

I was told there would be no astrophysics.

[Player 4576]

And no astroglide either from the looks of it. 

[HornsOverIthaca 2335]

36 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

in before first "none more black" joke

Dammit!!!!

[Armybrat 40917]

Getting close to April 15th.....

coincidence?

[52-80 19257]

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

[Hate 20146]

It's pretty amazing that this picture helped to confirm what Einstein proposed over a hundred years ago. 

[Bevo 13601]

Misread thread. Thought I was going to see my first black ho. Disappointed....

[Jerry Callo 8728]

1 minute ago, Hate said:

It's pretty amazing that this picture helped to confirm what Einstein proposed over a hundred years ago. 

And without the assistance of SpaghettiOs. 

[Dennis Taylor 18874]

3 minutes ago, speed817 said:

is that trump's tax return?

not here dumbass

[Mojo Hand 4580]

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? 

[retread 2951]

He talks about it around the 5:00 mark

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[Onboard 2.0 9083]

9 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

And without the assistance of SpaghettiOs. 

But he had a dead or alive cat in a box .

[DoobieWah 1462]

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.

[LonghornJones 837]

...and growing.

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

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? 

[Brisketexan 105375]

59 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

Amended.

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

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....

[Mojo Hand 4580]

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? 

[Bevo 13601]

11 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

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

[ztejas 43540]

Looks a little Messier than I was expecting.

[retread 2951]

22 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

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

6:40 in that video I posted talks about it. From his discussion, I think the answer is yes.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

4 minutes ago, retread said:

6:40 in that video I posted talks about it. From his discussion, I think the answer is yes.

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

[Scheiss Meister 8412]

1 hour ago, RamjetFDO said:

Space, you scary.

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My take away from this is that Bert has a big, dark asshole that sucks in everything.  Not that there's anything wrong with that. 

[retread 2951]

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.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

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.

[miguelito 11312]

someone at NASA needs to focus that damn camera.  that might as well be bigfoot in that picture.

[Pato del Muerto 52608]

How does this thing wash away the rain?  Tasty gravity waves?

[BERT 4381]

12 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

My take away from this is that Bert has a big, dark asshole that sucks in everything.  Not that there's anything wrong with that. 

This is why i can't have nice things. 

[High Plains Drifter 11052]

I have to admit, I clicked on this thread with a bit of trepidation after reading the title.

[smuggs 9353]

54 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

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

Can't answer - I'm only familiar with black holes that have secretion disks.

[phdhorn 6224]

1 hour ago, Player said:

And no astroglide either from the looks of it. 

But there is Astrowalk.

[Reynolds Woodcock 4801]

Thought for sure this would be a thread about South Austin's mom

[phdhorn 6224]

1 hour ago, Mojo Hand said:

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

It's fully accredited.  Unlike poor Pluto, which no longer is in the Federated Conference of Planets.

[Paco 1934]

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

Yes, just like the earth.

[BrazilHorn 6634]

“Hole Solo” 

[clapclapclap 9000]

Could we switch to a less offensive term, like perhaps 'Baby Arm'?

Back story:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas-city-hall/2008/07/07/dallas-county-meeting-turns-ra

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[Anton Chigurh 3319]

Pretty cool that Interstellar pretty much got it right aside from some smoothing and removing of the Doppler shift on the coloring. I know Kip Thorne did a lot of work on that behind the scenes, but that‘s some pretty cool validation.




What a more accurate render would be:

[SHOOTER12 8830]

Since I already mentioned her in another thread, the black hole would be my first wife. She sucked up everything she came into contact with and destroyed everything she came into contact with.

Edited April 10, 2019 by SHOOTER12

[wood 11268]

1 hour ago, ztejas said:

Looks a little Messier than I was expecting.

That's what she said.

[Bat Guano 359]

Well, to be that guy, that's what the black hole looked like 26,000 years ago.

But who's counting.

[Native Horn 3516]

[Blotto 23579]

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.

[Bevo 13601]

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?