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Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]

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Re: Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]

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Does anyone remember Interstellar. Their black hole simulation was based on hard science. Looks fairly similar

just had my wife watch it and yea, that was the first thing I noticed, they really did a good job on the science of interstellar.

When interstellar came out wired did a full magazine spread on the movie, covering its science, how they came up with the story and what the director did to make sure it was believable. idk what it looks like online but I've kept the magazine.

Re: Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]

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post #123

A small thing. It could have been nice if the scientists didn't have commercial bottled water on stage. As an example to the world. Reusable personal containers would have been nice.

Most scientist I know have a reusable water bottle on their desk. And a coffee cup. But it will likely have a cat or a joke of the "astronomers do it in the dark" flavour on it. Not something you typically want to show on TV. Also they traveled from their home institutes to the location of the press conference and got handed that plastic bottle by some well-meaning PR person.

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post #140

Does this confirm or disapprove Steven Hawking Black-hole radiation?

The Hawking radiation for a black hole with this mass would be really small. It actually decreases with added mass. So, this observation does not say anything about Hawking radiation.

Re: Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does that image have a weird pulsing optical illusion for anyone else?

Yes, reminds me of the Eye of Sauron.

Funnily, it reminds me of Soundgarden's album, Superunknown, which had the famous song 'Black Hole Sun.'

https://www.amazon.com/Superunknown-Soundgarden/dp/B00IXLQJ8...

Re: Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's still no proof of existence of black holes. It's like saying that a lightning storm is proof of Thor, because the legends say he wields the very same lightning. The cause could be something entirely different (spontaneous spacetime ripples, alien generators, whatever really).

> It's still no proof of existence of black holes You've shifted the goal posts in this sentence. Previously, you said there was no evidence of black holes. Now you're upped the scale to demanding proof . The previous commenter wasn't claiming that LIGO detections were proof of black holes. They said that they were evidence of black holes. The LIGO detections, by all reasonable metrics, would certainly qualify as evi…

The fact that scientists were able to accurately predict what this black whole should look like using the math at our disposal is about as good a piece of evidence as one can get.

Re: Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]

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Higher resolution official release seems to be: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/blackholes/download...

Does that image have a weird pulsing optical illusion for anyone else?

looks like the image data was cleaned up with bicubic interpolation, or something of the like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicubic_interpolation

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