First ever black hole image

[DPH]

^you're gosh darn right it does!

 

[Pano]

Good thing, too!

 

[benb]

Mods, avert your eyes! Unless you have no clue what meme this is from ...

Wil Wheaton posted it, it must be good and wholesome:

WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR dot COM - I've been waiting for this all day. Thanks for not...

 

[chrisb]

Dave, that's actually a shot of the 4:20 light up last year, here in the 'big smoke', unrelated to this thread.

so, someone's counting down now, are they? A Saturday this year.

 

[Tournesol]

The intelligence of this woman, her enthusiasm, something so beautiful that emanates from her can bring tears to you as the greatest musicians can do.
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Something very rare and precious, the same simplicity, the same emotion.
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Succeeding to get the picture of the invisible from the idea that everything in the universe obeys the same forms, the same harmonies, those same of our daily life, is, somewhere, to approach a mystery greater than the one of a black hole. A mystery that some people call, without being able to define it, "God".

 

[PRR]

...bringing drives down from the mountain...

Turns out some of these observatories are so high-up (to 3 miles) that ordinary disk drives don't work.

So you've 'seen' the black hole. Now for the interesting bit – how all that raw data was stored • The Register

 

[jackinnj]

It looks like the thing your wife sits on after the baby.

 

[chrisb]

After watching Katie’s TED talk, I couldn’t help but imagine her middle school science fair project - probably not a paper mache volcano?

 

[jneutron]

Turns out some of these observatories are so high-up (to 3 miles) that ordinary disk drives don't work.

So you've 'seen' the black hole. Now for the interesting bit – how all that raw data was stored • The Register

Interesting fact, I never considered that.


Except, an engineer would have put the drives in a pressurized vessel back in 2015. I do admit, helium filled drives are cool as well.
Jn

 

[jneutron]

After watching Katie’s TED talk, I couldn’t help but imagine her middle school science fair project - probably not a paper mache volcano?

She probably built an MRI.

I loved how, when the trolls attacked her saying a guy wrote most of the code, that guy busted their humps and defended her big time.

And she said it was a team effort.

Class, major class. They have my utmost respect. That is how all should live their lives.

Jn

 

[oreo382]

The real image before they doctored it

 

[chrisb]

So photoshopping that image is officially the latest meme?

 

[scott wurcer]

So photoshopping that image is officially the latest meme?

Heaven forbid I make fun of the op-amp rollers.

 

[scott wurcer]

Class, major class. They have my utmost respect. That is how all should live their lives.

Jn

An unfortunate interpretation of a press release (MIT's PR is capable of being as clueless as anyone's) turned into a troll fest. It makes me want to pull the plug.

 

[planet10]

Black hole at centre of galaxy M87 named Powehi, which means 'adorned fathomless dark creation'

The most famous black hole now has a name | CBC News

dave

 

[jneutron]

An unfortunate interpretation of a press release (MIT's PR is capable of being as clueless as anyone's) turned into a troll fest. It makes me want to pull the plug.

And yet, in this day and age, the truth comes out.

Class always rises to the top.
Jn

 

[Galu]

And here is the Dark Creator in the act of creating the 'adorned fathomless dark creation'!

 

[benb]

Heaven forbid I make fun of the op-amp rollers.

I can get you a good deal on some vintage 12AX741A's.

 

[Pano]

Interesting. Having visited the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea, I didn't find the air all that thin. Certainly would not have thought it any thinner than Helium at near normal atmospheric pressure.

 

[Jim the Oldbie]

Disney got the image pretty much right 40 years ago!

I saw that movie in the theater with some friends when it came out. It was a Friday night, and I think everyone in there was drunk as hell (we certainly were). I couldn't relate a single scene of it to you now. You might say there's a black hole in my memory where that film should be.