Posted on 04/10/2019 6:18:43 AM PDT by C19fan
The first image of a black hole has been captured by astronomers, heralding a revolution in our understanding of the universe’s most enigmatic objects.
The picture shows a halo of dust and gas, tracing the outline of a colossal black hole, at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy, 55 million light years from Earth.
The black hole itself – a cosmic trapdoor from which neither light nor matter can escape – is unseeable. But the latest observations take astronomers right to its threshold for the first time, illuminating the event horizon beyond which all known physical laws break down.
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Waiting for the inevitability of the left calling a black holes racist!!
Whoops sorry I automatically put an A in front of it...
Well that ain't exactly true. From both poles a relativistic jet shoots out plasma at near light speed.
Wrong hole.
“Waiting for the inevitability of the left calling a black holes racist!!”
John Wiley Price of Dallas already did, years ago.
Looks like a glazed donut.
Thanks for the picture.
There’s an illustration at the source that explains what we’re seeing and here’s the caption:
What the Event Horizon Telescope image shows us
Gravity bends light from the disc around the black hole, giving it the appearance of a halo regardless of what angle it is viewed from.
Looks like a donut.
Mmmmmmmm.....
Glazed donut........
A black hole has spherical characteristics - it is a sphere. A doughnut is flat in one plane. A sphere can't have a doughnut "around" it. It may very well be that an image of the system may look like a doughnut from a single observation point far away. However, the actual 'ring of gas' cannot be a doughnut that just 'happens' to be perpendicular to our observation point. It must actually be a 'sphere of gas'.
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
The Hooker: Cookie Williams (Hazelle Goodman), the tough-talking African-American prostitute who may be about the only friend the misanthropic writer Harry Block (Woody Allen) has. If you ask her if she knows what a black hole is, she’ll respond, “That’s how I make my living.”
Ping just because it is.
Wrong thread.
It’s a plasma donut.
Fascinating!
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