Lunamor Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! We finally got a picture of a black hole!!! 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truthless of Shinovar Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 IT'S HERE!! After almost a century of waiting after Einstein's Theory of Relativity, we have rock-solid PROOF (again)! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGirlWhoLookedUp Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 Wooooohoooo! As a big science geek I can’t hide how excited I am about this. Do you know how big this black hole is? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunamor Posted April 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 (edited) A picture from further out is even better!!!!! Edit: @TheGirlWhoLookedUp, it is 40 billion kilometers across, or 3 million times the size of earth. Edited April 11, 2019 by Lunamor 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGirlWhoLookedUp Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 That’s really incredible! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZincAboutIt Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 That tiny pinprick of darkness is the most unsettling thing I've ever seen, wow. Super cool. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunamor Posted April 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 (edited) You can see the light getting sucked into it!!!! It’s amazing and beautiful and awesome and AHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Edited April 11, 2019 by Lunamor 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagliacci Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 I feel really small all of a sudden. This is really cool. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunamor Posted April 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 I just saw that they likely will be unable to get more pictures until at least 2020. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGirlWhoLookedUp Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 2020 is apparently the golden year. Stormlight 4 and black hole pictures. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AonEne Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 Okay, that's just awesome. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen’sWit Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 Woah. Coming from someone who knows next to nothing about black holes, (except something about spaghetti or the likes) this is pretty cool! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwordNimiForPresident Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, TheGirlWhoLookedUp said: Wooooohoooo! As a big science geek I can’t hide how excited I am about this. Do you know how big this black hole is? According to the study that took the picture it's 6.5 billion M☉ (6.5 billion times our sun's mass) Here's the wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87 Edit: That link is to the galaxy. The black hole part is in the Components section. It is designated M87*. Edited April 11, 2019 by SwordNimiForPresident 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 Wow! That’s super cool! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Invocation Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 (edited) Fun fact about this discovery: it was mostly due to a pair of graduate students that the image was able to be captured. One's name is Katie Bouman, and she needed 8 racks of hard drives, each with 8 drives in them to store all the data from the image, and she was mostly in charge of the data managing and putting together the image itself. The other was Andrew Chael, who helped calibrate the sensors and set the data collection sequence up, along with a rough structure. 5 petabytes of information went into this photo. Insane. Edited April 11, 2019 by Invocation 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagliacci Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 One ring (of fire) to rule them all... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vogelsang Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 *happy science noises* 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ark1002 Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overlord stick Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 That's incredible! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silva Posted April 11, 2019 Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 *feels really really really small.* Black holes are terrifying. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Doomstick Posted April 12, 2019 Report Share Posted April 12, 2019 heh heh heh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherlock Holmes Posted April 12, 2019 Report Share Posted April 12, 2019 Oh, look, Sauron finally decided to show back up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowLord_Lith Posted April 12, 2019 Report Share Posted April 12, 2019 This is beautiful... It's like we've gotten a glimpse of the future end of the universe- a blackness slowly spreading from the center as mass grows too little to support itself in an ever-expanding universe. Or like a picture of a flower- a beautiful, unique snapshot of just how amazing the universe can be. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwordNimiForPresident Posted April 13, 2019 Report Share Posted April 13, 2019 On 4/11/2019 at 11:16 AM, Ark1002 said: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I think that might actually be the sound you make as you cross the event horizon. You can see how the E's get closer together as time dilates. Need more testing to confirm. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Invocation Posted April 13, 2019 Report Share Posted April 13, 2019 11 minutes ago, SwordNimiForPresident said: I think that might actually be the sound you make as you cross the event horizon. You can see how the E's get closer together as time dilates. Need more testing to confirm. No, because the Es would be breaking into single lines. Spaghettification. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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