The first ever photograph of a Black Hole 🍩

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bit underwhelming isn’t it?

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#2

Thought it’d be blacker

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#3

I don’t know about anybody else, but it reminds me of a blurry spaghetti hoop at night.

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#5

I like it and have changed my picture accordingly

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#6

So what is it?

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#7

I quite like it. Weird how it looks like that.

#8

6 billion suns, guys. That’s a thicc boi.

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#9
  • Like it. Looks good.
  • Hate it. Looks shit.

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Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87. The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun. This long-sought image provides the strongest evidence to date for the existence of supermassive black holes and opens a new window onto the study of black holes, their event horizons, and gravity.

#11

shite

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#13

Very informal at the EHT.

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#14

Somebody give it eyelashes

#15

Looks like a head with a giant burning celestial beard to me.

ALL HAIL THE SPACE BEARD.

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#16

pppfft! Our dining room table looks blacker than that.

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#17

Two of my colleagues just went off on one about this, super excited, trying to find a feed for the live press conference, banging on about all the numbers and stuff. It’s nice they’re excited, but idk, I can’t really bring myself to care? Am I dead inside?

#18

Or a blurry spaghetti hoop on @Gnometorious and @Avery’s table?

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#19

very good :clap:

#20

To even resolve it you need an aperture the size of the Earth. It’s pretty nuts.

#22

Just think, Matthew McConaughey is in there.

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#23

There might be something to be said about “brown holes”, but I’m not sure I’m prepared to go there (and it’s not Thursday)

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