We Need to Admit That the Black Hole Photo Isn’t Very Good
5 years, 11 months ago

We Need to Admit That the Black Hole Photo Isn’t Very Good

Slate  

It’s like the universe had a royal baby: That’s how excited everyone is for this first glimpse of a black hole, which astronomers announced Wednesday morning in D.C. Instagram vs reality pic.twitter.com/DEeuQ2p5WC — Royal Institution April 10, 2019 And yet the blurriness hasn’t stopped writers from waxing poetic about the image, like the New York Times comparing the black hole to the “Eye of Sauron”—which is a Lord of the Rings thing, I Googled it—and calling it “a reminder yet again of the power and malevolence of nature.” If you say so! Compare this to the ACTUAL photo https://t.co/tO8aWubWhh pic.twitter.com/EA6VissndN — Kwame Opam April 10, 2019 There’s also no sense of scale—the black hole is reportedly 6.5 billion times the mass of the sun. * At any rate, I’m with him: swiping left on that blurry-ass black hole — Miles Klee April 10, 2019 Science, let us know when you find a more photogenic black hole.

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First image of a black hole looks sharper after AI makeover
1 year, 11 months ago

First image of a black hole looks sharper after AI makeover

LA Times  

Images of the enormous black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy in 2019, left, and in 2023. The first image of a black hole captured four years ago revealed a fuzzy, fiery doughnut-shaped object. The image released in 2019 gave a peek at the enormous black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, 53 million light years …

Astronomers Release Incredible Image Capturing Light Swirling Around Black Hole
4 years ago

Astronomers Release Incredible Image Capturing Light Swirling Around Black Hole

News 18  

The astronomers who gave the world its first true glimpse of a black hole have produced another landmark image, this time capturing the polarised light swirling around the same star-eating monster’s magnetic fields. “We are now seeing the next crucial piece of evidence to understand how magnetic fields behave around black holes,” said co-author Monika Moscibrodzka, an assistant professor at …

Stunning new image of the first black hole EVER photographed
4 years ago

Stunning new image of the first black hole EVER photographed

Daily Mail  

The supermassive black hole at the heart of galaxy M87 has been photographed in polarised light, revealing the magnetic field and its interactions at the edge of this massive stellar phenomenon for the first time. Using the Event Horizon Telescope, an international team of astronomers measured the polarisation - a signature of magnetic fields - close to the edge of …

The extreme and warped reality of black holes
5 years, 6 months ago

The extreme and warped reality of black holes

CNN  

CNN — If there were a safe way to approach a black hole and see how it worked, it might look something like this. A new visual depiction of a black hole’s impressive gravity by NASA reveals its warping of space and time. The light appears in different wavelengths due to the black hole’s gravity, causing its skewed appearance. Credits: …

How scientists created the first ever image of a black hole
5 years, 11 months ago

How scientists created the first ever image of a black hole

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. If you needed to see to believe, then thank the Event Horizon Telescope, which recently …

First image of a black hole: Google Doodle celebrates science breakthrough
5 years, 11 months ago

First image of a black hole: Google Doodle celebrates science breakthrough

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. People often assume that falling into a black hole would mean you’d be torn to bits. Those …

Meet Katie Bouman, the 29-year-old Harvard graduate behind the world's first black hole image
5 years, 11 months ago

Meet Katie Bouman, the 29-year-old Harvard graduate behind the world's first black hole image

India Today  

April 10, 2019, saw the world getting its first ever image of a black hole. 3 years ago MIT grad student Katie Bouman led the creation of a new algorithm to produce the first-ever image of a black hole. More info: https://t.co/WITAL1omGl 2016 story: https://t.co/QV7Zf2snEP#EHTblackhole #EventHorizonTelescope pic.twitter.com/u6FBswmGDZ MIT CSAIL April 10, 2019 About the world's first image of a supermassive …

Scientists Capture First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole
5 years, 11 months ago

Scientists Capture First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole

Slate  

In what is being heralded as a momentous and long-awaited development in scientists’ search to understand some of the most mysterious aspects of our universe, astronomers for the first time have captured a photo of a black hole, an international consortium of scientists announced in simultaneous press conferences around the world Wednesday. Beyond producing a cool-looking image, the data will …

This is the first photo of a black hole
5 years, 11 months ago

This is the first photo of a black hole

CNN  

CNN — In April 2017, scientists used a global network of telescopes to see and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole, according to an announcement by researchers at the National Science Foundation Wednesday morning. “We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole.” The black hole image captured by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. National Science …

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