Photo of the event horizon of a black hole

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For those of you who saw the first published photo of the silhouette of the event horizon of a black hole

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There's a nice article that adds a bit more meat to the story and explains the detail of the image...

Incredible to think that the highest resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope is 0.03 arcseconds/pixel and this object is at a resolution of at 7 microarcsecond/pixel - as it says in the article 'this black hole image is equivalent to seeing a marble on the Moon'

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Really makes me feel like...

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MrPT said:
Hehe. I also saw someone call it "God's Asshole".
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Wrong direction...

...although we could be existing in God's rectum.... that might explain a few things...
 
PerryGunn said:
buzyg said:
Does that come with Jam or Custard? Looks tasty either way.
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MrPT said:
...it looks like a Haribo.
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It's more likely to eat you...

On the plus side, we now know the location of Middle Earth...
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Now if only NASA was to present it like that. Must be hard judging how much Hollywood you can add to what is an incredible object, but still a very plain image.
 
You think that’s a mindfuck, check this out. This is a wider x-ray image of the whole M87 galaxy - the tiny black dot in the middle of the picture is what Perry posted above. The black hole itself is the size of our solar system, and that jet in the picture is 1,000 light years long :o

http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2019/black_hole/
 

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Perhaps they should give the image to the CSI team.... they seem to get amazing results from blurry images... :wink:

#zoom #enhance #zoom #enhance #zoom #enhance
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It’s just so immense what steps forward that have happened in last couple of years
 
It hurts my brain whenever I think about these things, so I choose not to :lol:

It really is crazy just how insignificant we all are.
 
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You think that’s a mindfuck, check this out. This is a wider x-ray image of the whole M87 galaxy - the tiny black dot in the middle of the picture is what Perry posted above. The black hole itself is the size of our solar system, and that jet in the picture is 1,000 light years long :o

http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2019/black_hole/
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Looks like God’s been on the lamb bhunas.
 
ben g said:
It really is crazy just how insignificant we all are.
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Not really, the world of sub atomic particles is so infinitesimally smaller than us that we are pretty much in the middle of the scale. We are much bigger than an atom but much smaller than a galaxy, it was inevitable that living beings evolving in the universe would end up at around the size that we are.
 
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ben g said:
It really is crazy just how insignificant we all are.
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Not really, the world of sub atomic particles is so infinitesimally smaller than us that we are pretty much in the middle of the scale. We are much bigger than an atom but much smaller than a galaxy, it was inevitable that living beings evolving in the universe would end up at around the size that we are.
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Christs sake man, you're not making it any easier :lol: :thumbsup:
 
Amazing but I read the other day that there are more atoms in a drop of water than all the stars inall the known galaxies . Aggghhhhhhhhh my head cant process that kind of info 😩
 
mad4slalom said:
Amazing but I read the other day that there are more atoms in a drop of water than all the stars in all the known galaxies . Aggghhhhhhhhh my head cant process that kind of info 😩
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'All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.'
― Douglas Adams
 
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