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I don't get the whole "oh it's too blurry and nothing is visible" comments. It's a black hole, what did you expect to see? Interstellar CGI?
by _void 7y ago
I don't get the whole "oh it's too blurry and nothing is visible" comments. It's a black hole, what did you expect to see? Interstellar CGI?
- KnightOfWords 7y agoYes, we're using a telescope the size of the Earth to look at an object the size of our solar system in a galaxy about 55 million light years away. It's an infinitesimally small patch of sky. On the other hand, the jet from the M87 black hole is quite large and we have good images of it. It's even resolvable by amateurs, I hope to take a picture of it over Easter with a small telescope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87#Jet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87#Jet
- O_H_E 7y ago> 55 million light years didn't he correct himself and said kilometers
- petschge 7y ago55 million light years is about correct. Wikipedia still has 53.5 ± 1.63 Mly from older observations, but appendix I in paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab1141 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab1141 has a bit more on the distance measurements they used. They arrive at 16.76 ± 0.75 Mpc, which translates into 54.7 ± 2.4 Mly.
- MR4D 7y agoHe corrected himself to say 500 billion billion kilometers after mistakingly saying light years. I haven't done the math, but I believe that roughly equates to 55 million light years.
- O_H_E 7y agoYup, My bad.
- crimsonalucard 7y agoIt is a letdown. Although I wasn't expecting Jupiter level detail this pic doesn't blow me away because it's just a blurry ring. Jupiter level detail will blow me away.
- C4stor 7y agoThe significance of the image is not in its quality, but in its mere existence. It's enough to confirm various predictions, and should give a new baseline for truth about black holes.
- lanewinfield 7y agoConsider yourself lucky that a black hole isn't Jupiter level distance from us.
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- crimsonalucard 7y agoAt a jupiter level distance we'd be well within the event horizon. At that distance I expect to see four dimensional book cases and my daughter.
- HenryBemis 7y agoJupiter level quality would mean that we are so close that we would be instantly torn apart.
- crimsonalucard 7y agoJupiter level quality is what I want. Not jupiter level distance.