Everybody has seen all the computer graphic simulations on TV- but those were all hypothetical..

Today the first actual image of a black hole was released:

Info here:

http://www.reuters.com/article...%2F+Top+News%29





Info here:

http://www.reuters.com/article...%2F+Top+News%29




Edited: 04/10/2019 at 07:04 AM by paddleout

coincidence? i think not

Edited: 04/10/2019 at 10:27 AM by RiddleMe

^this explains much

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Cue the black hole deniers in 3, 2...

I've always thought that the mass at thecenter of a black hole was compressed down to an infinite smallness, or at least a tiny dot.

But I recently learned that's not the case at all- there's a big thing in there:

"The size of an event horizon depends on the black hole's mass. If Earth were compressed until it became a black hole, it would have a diameter of about 0.69 inches (17.4 millimeters), a little smaller than a dime; if the sun were converted to a black hole, it would be about 3.62 miles (5.84 kilometers) wide, about the size of a village or town. The supermassive black holes that the Event Horizon Telescope is observing are far larger; Sagittarius A*, at the center of the Milky Way, is about 4.3 million times the mass of our sun and has a diameter of about 7.9 million miles (12.7 million km), while M87 at the heart of the Virgo A galaxy is about 6 billion solar masses and 11 billion miles (17.7 billion km) wide."

http://www.space.com/black-hol...horizon-explained.html

Very ominous looking.

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Outstanding work Ms. Bouman...

fox

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Edited: 04/11/2019 at 04:05 AM by worksuxgetsponsered

Cool.

Yeah, they call it a singularity which makes me think of a single point (from my complex variables class), but by that they must mean nothing escapes. And/or space time has infinite distortion there.

So, could we get back Riddleme's connection to the Middle Earth just for a moment? At the end of Sauron's reign, when the ring is unforged, the earth just crumbles and all the bad guys sink. So, what is the density of evil? High I should think, like a black hole? Consider poor Smeagol falling into the lava at Mt. Doom. Molten basalt has a density of about 3, and even protohobbits would have a density around 1 like us. Yet Smeagol sinks!!! So, the density of bad guys must be pretty high. Like a black hole! Unfortunately, this new science may undermine somewhat the credibility of the duck/witch mass ratio test, throwing into question the wisdom of Authur, King of the Britons. Was that poor woman with the carrot nose a witch or not? I guess we'll never know. #scienceexonerateswitches?

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Why can't we just send Enterprise to go scan it?

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