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Old 04-10-2019, 9:12am   #1
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Here is the cool part, the hole is so dense that if the Earth was nearby, it would be crushed down to the size of a shoe.

Another fact, that black hole is 6.5 Billion times larger than our sun.

If you want to understand what you see in that pic of the black hole - check out this video.




And....if you don't know, I am a HUGE space geek.
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And....if you don't know, I am a HUGE space geek.
Oh yeah? Well, do you DVR "How the Universe Works" and "Spaces Deepest Secrets"?

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Oh yeah? Well, do you DVR "How the Universe Works" and "Spaces Deepest Secrets"?

Why yes. Yes I do. Also take an occasional pic of some space stuff.
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Taken over four days when astronomers had “to have the perfect weather all across the world and literally all the stars had to align,” the image helps confirm Einstein’s general relativity theory, Dempsey said. Einstein a century ago even predicted the symmetrical shape that scientists just found, she said.

The measurements were taken at a wavelength the human eye cannot see, so the astronomers added color to the image, choosing gold and orange because the light is so hot.

What the image shows is gas heated to millions of degrees by the friction of ever-stronger gravity. That gravity creates a funhouse effect where you see light from both behind the black hole and behind you as the light curves and circles around the black hole itself.

The project cost $50 million to $60 million, with $26 million of that coming from the National Science Foundation.

The black hole depicted in the image is about 6 billion times the mass of our sun and is in a galaxy called M87 that is about 53 million light years from Earth. One light year is 5.9 trillion miles, or 9.5 trillion kilometers.

The telescope data was gathered by the Event Horizon Telescope two years ago. Completing the image was an enormous undertaking, involving about 200 scientists, supercomputers and hundreds of terabytes of data delivered worldwide by plane.

“We’ve been hunting this for a long time,” Dempsey said. “We’ve been getting closer and closer with better technology.”

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Quite the project.
Not exactly point and shoot.
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Oh yeah? Well, do you DVR "How the Universe Works" and "Spaces Deepest Secrets"?

No, I watch all that stuff on Netflix/Hulu/Amazon.
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Here is the cool part, the hole is so dense that if the Earth was nearby, it would be crushed down to the size of a shoe.

Another fact, that black hole is 6.5 Billion times larger than our sun.

If you want to understand what you see in that pic of the black hole - check out this video.





And....if you don't know, I am a HUGE space geek.
EH, a 1/4 acre is plenty enough for me...... AND it's way bigger than any shoe.....(that I know about, anyway).....
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Why yes. Yes I do. Also take an occasional pic of some space stuff.
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No, I watch all that stuff on Netflix/Hulu/Amazon.
Brothers!!! But I don't do the Netflix/Hulu/Amazon thing
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If you look close into that really dark middle part you can just see the last fleeting glances of Russian Collusion.
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Why yes. Yes I do. Also take an occasional awesome pic of some awesome freaking space stuff.
Fixed it for you ....
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There is so much about the universe that we just don't know.
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oh sure, we have huge black holes (that matter), but then we also have white dwarfs.
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Know why men love black holes?

It won’t let them pull out
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She is getting at least some credit later today...

"We developed ways to generate synthetic data and used different algorithms and tested blindly to see if we can recover an image."

That's sexy talk right there!
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