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Event Horizon Telescope Live Press Conference

30 points by okket 8y ago

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mino 8y ago
Direct link to youtube streaminng: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr20f19czeE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr20f19czeE
lelf 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope
wolfram74 8y ago
I had a brief conversation about this and the Falcon Heavy launch with my quantum professor, who is very deep into black holes. I completely understand why they're very excited about this announcement, and I am pumped as well. But they should be a bit excited for the falcon heavy launch as well, if we had a radio telescope on the far side of the moon with a decent clock the resolution on this announcement would an order of magnitude better. That kind of project will be more feasible as launches get cheaper. edit: The radio telescope on the moon's data would be integrated into the rest of the networks, this would permit a virtual aperture diameter about ~50 times larger.
atleta 8y ago
It keeps failing for me after a few ten seconds. Anyone else having this problem? (Other YT live streams seem to work fine.)
- atleta 8y ago
  Seems to work in Chrome (fails in FF). Weird.
okket 8y ago
The papers with the scientific details are here (open access): https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_EHT https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_E... Article in physics world with comparisons to simulations: https://physicsworld.com/a/first-images-of-a-black-hole-unveiled-by-astronomers-in-landmark-discovery/ https://physicsworld.com/a/first-images-of-a-black-hole-unve... "AskScience" AMA on Reddit about the breakthrough: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/bbknik/askscience_ama_series_we_are_scientists_here_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/bbknik/askscien...
SiempreViernes 8y ago
A very good (technical) talk about the EHT project and the physics they try to do here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiS1OJNBrvk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiS1OJNBrvk It is a bit old (2012), but comprehensive and with both good audio and readable slides.

30 points by okket 8y ago

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mino 8y ago

Direct link to youtube streaminng: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr20f19czeE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr20f19czeE

lelf 8y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope

wolfram74 8y ago

I had a brief conversation about this and the Falcon Heavy launch with my quantum professor, who is very deep into black holes. I completely understand why they're very excited about this announcement, and I am pumped as well. But they should be a bit excited for the falcon heavy launch as well, if we had a radio telescope on the far side of the moon with a decent clock the resolution on this announcement would an order of magnitude better. That kind of project will be more feasible as launches get cheaper. edit: The radio telescope on the moon's data would be integrated into the rest of the networks, this would permit a virtual aperture diameter about ~50 times larger.

atleta 8y ago

It keeps failing for me after a few ten seconds. Anyone else having this problem? (Other YT live streams seem to work fine.)

atleta 8y ago
Seems to work in Chrome (fails in FF). Weird.

okket 8y ago

The papers with the scientific details are here (open access): https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_EHT https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_E... Article in physics world with comparisons to simulations: https://physicsworld.com/a/first-images-of-a-black-hole-unveiled-by-astronomers-in-landmark-discovery/ https://physicsworld.com/a/first-images-of-a-black-hole-unve... "AskScience" AMA on Reddit about the breakthrough: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/bbknik/askscience_ama_series_we_are_scientists_here_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/bbknik/askscien...

SiempreViernes 8y ago

A very good (technical) talk about the EHT project and the physics they try to do here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiS1OJNBrvk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiS1OJNBrvk It is a bit old (2012), but comprehensive and with both good audio and readable slides.