First ever image of a black hole event horizon

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This is quite remarkable and a huge milestone and a privilege to be alive to witness this progress.

Scientists around the world will to collaborate to achieve the same goal through a large pool of international facilities connecting telescopes to create a virtual array to capture the first image of a black hole event horizon.

At 40:37 is the first ever official reveal:

Add AI to the mix and the achievements with international collaboration are endless.

To bad our cultures, religions, politics and labels aka tribes limit us from achieving this universal collective function.

 

[HEYHEY]

Heres an image for those who dont have time to watch the video

 

[malata]

This is quite remarkable and a huge milestone and a privilege to be alive to witness this progress.

for them to explain the image quality, intrigues the black hole out of me

 

[Insidious Von]

As Spocco would say, fascinating.

Einstein was in denial about Black Holes, the theory depressed him. It's a fundamental law of nature, for every nursery there's a graveyard.

 

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As Spocco would say, fascinating.

Einstein was in denial about Black Holes, the theory depressed him. It's a fundamental law of nature, for every nursery there's a graveyard.

Katie Mack puts this nicely
https://twitter.com/astrokatie/status/1116053661015269377?s=21

Everything we've seen about #BlackHoles fits with Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity. But PLEASE don't give Einstein credit for coming up with black holes -- when they were theorized by others, he didn't even believe they could happen!

I get that people like to have an archetypical extreme genius, and Einstein did accomplish a lot! But he didn't discover EVERYTHING and he certainly didn't work alone. He had lots of collaborators and built his ideas on a LOT of previous work.

When Einstein was working on general relativity, he realized he needed more sophisticated math than he knew, so he had his colleague Marcel Grossmann teach him differential geometry. Science is a collaborative venture! More on the "lone genius" idea here:
http://astrokatie.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-lone-genius-hypothesis.html

 

[oil&gas]

Einstein was in denial about Black Holes, the theory depressed him. It's a fundamental law of nature, for every nursery there's a graveyard.

Einstein proved black hole to be a theoretical possibility.
He did not prove its existence.
At the time when he published his work on General
Relativity existing knowledge of cosmology
was primitive compared with what
we know today. Einstein could not even have known
there were galaxies beyon the Milky way back then.
In fact observation of black holes was by no means
certain even as recent as 1980's. Either Stephen Hawking
or Kip Thorne during the decade placed a bet on the
eventual location of a black hole over the collection
of Penthouse magazines belonging to one of them.
Einstein's doubt about black hole were likely
shared by other scientists at
least before Edwin Hubble's discovery of galaxies
lying outside the Milky Way.

 

[basketcase]

As Spocco would say, fascinating.

Einstein was in denial about Black Holes, the theory depressed him....

It is the quantum singularity believed to be at the centre of a black hole that he disliked, not the idea that a strong gravitational field could trap light. There are some theorists who suggest that instead of being a singularity the core is just an extremely dense mass of particles but there is no way that we will ever know the truth of it.