Neat thou I wonder why they took 2 years to release this image if they took the picture back in 2017,
I can see them taking afew months to double check the data
They wrote an article and everything! I bet if you read it, you could find out.
All kidding aside, the process took a very long time, and the follow up along with independent confirmation - they wanted to be sure they got it right before releasing the image.
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The process they employed was amazing, at least, and how they came about it was a triumph of industry and science coming together.
Well, technically... we're seeing the accretion disk? Since we can't actually see an ideal black body...
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but with density on that level, i'm sure it crushes everything that goes into it to a level that must be tiny. diamond, stone, metal, whatever, nothing could withstand being crushed with this much force.
so whatever the black hole is made of has to be something stupidly heavy and stupidly hard.
The idea is that the space between atoms is compressed inside a black hole, all atoms and their bonds are shattered in the process, materials like we know it don't exists anymore. What exactly happens and if and in what form energy exists inside is unknown at this point. However matter outside of a black hole is generally very empty, with that I mean that the space between the nuclei of an atom and the electrons surrounding it is so big that at average density water is 99.9999...% empty space. So while being much heavier then our sun (in this case about 4 billion times as heavy) it could well be that the actual size of the ball in the middle of this particular black hole is smaller then the sun itself.
see, that's what i mean.
the thing in the black spot could be the size of a marble for all we know.
but idk, i feel like it has to be made of something we don't know the name of yet. some kind of substance, like neutron stars are made of. a teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs like a stupid heavy amount, i can't remember exactly how much(it's been a while since i watched that documentary).
considering a black hole is a collapsed star, it's probably pretty similar to the stuff a neutron star is made of. or maybe it is the same stuff, just in greater quantity. meaning it would be as big or bigger than our sun.
Not impressed. It is big fricken black hole. So what? What I am impressed with however is photos which show multiple galaxies in the same view. Such an abundance of stars to the point it is mind boggling. To Imagine this is all from a accident reinforces to myself the insanity of such a concept.
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Seems like no one actually cares about this thankfully, but what actual, tangible proof is there that it even is what they say it is? Some BS equations or something?
Oh boy, here comes the Creationists. We can't have a single scientific discussion without SOMEONE coming in to peddle that old tired idea.
OT: pretty cool. Now we just need to develop an actual camera that takes a visible light photo instead of sensors picking up various infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths to generate an image.
Its much harder to peer into the core of a galaxy than to get a bunch in one shot. M87, the galaxy those to view, is about as wide as our but ~4 times as massive. 4x the stuff in the same amount of space. We can barely see the core of our own galaxy. Now try to view the core of a galaxy 53 million light years away with 4x the stars/gas to look through. Then you have to isolate the event horizon the of the black hole in a swirling disc of gas bright than our sun. Scientist had to come up with completly new algorithms just to get a chance of viewing this thing.
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52 million light years is a good distance. I wouldn’t want to get sucked in.
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