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First ever images from the Event Horizon Telescope expected next week

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    Hopefully Old BOB can save us again.
     
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    After adjusting the focus, this made NASA go what the duck.

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    One of the scientists that made the black hole pictures a reality. And yes, I would...


     
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    He has a really good channel for cosmology and space stuff.
     
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    I think she has a new job at Cal Tech now. Impressive trajectory for a young scientist, for sure.
    Teaching a lot of female science students, I can tell you these kinds of exemplary people really do make a difference. I love it. It's not just "oh look, a woman is involved in cutting edge science," but it's also, "oh look, a woman is involved in cutting edge science and she doesn't have to look like and act like a guy."
     
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    Article covering these images from a proposed version of the EHT that involves 3 telescopes out of Earth's orbit.

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190506124118.htm



    This video covers 7 telescopes of the future in the field of astronomy and the interesting challenges in IT just to transfer hundreds of petabytes of data gathered by these instruments. It's videos like these that give me hope for the future of humanity though. The level of precision and detail these instruments gather is something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime and yet here we are.

    Also while we're still discussing the black hole photo, here's a very interesting podcast interview with theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind. He is one the chief contributors to the holographic principle and was good friends with Richard Feynman. The discussion on quantum computers and all the research in error correcting to hopefully engineer up to a 400 qubit quantum computer was interesting to listen to.

     
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    Cool short video about the first black hole discovered -- nice animation to visualize what's going on.



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    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    Dysfunctional AF
     
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    Forgot to post this one -- recently released image in polarized light.
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    M87's Central Black Hole in Polarized Light
    Image Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210331.html
     
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    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    Amazing.

    I can literally see Cthulhu.
     
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    Black hole: First picture of Milky Way monster

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    This is the gargantuan black hole that lives at the centre of our galaxy, pictured for the very first time.

    Known as Sagittarius A*, the object is a staggering four million times the mass of our Sun.

    What you see is a central dark region where the hole resides, circled by the light coming from super-heated gas accelerated by immense gravitational forces.

    For scale, the ring is roughly the size of Mercury's orbit around our star.

    That's about 60 million km, or 40 million miles, across.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61412463.amp
     
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    Welcome to where time stands still
    No one leaves and no one will

    Sagittarius
    Leave me be
    Sagittarius
    Just leave me alone
     
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    Welcome to where time stands still
    No one leaves and no one will

    Amber
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    Johnny
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    #59 KingCheetah, May 12, 2022
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    This just blows my mind........very cool stuff
     
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