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Question is, what did the project aim to achieve? Take a picture of the black hole? Or gather data that will help us study blackholes? Because the press is la
by billfruit 8y ago
Question is, what did the project aim to achieve? Take a picture of the black hole?
Or gather data that will help us study blackholes?
Because the press is largely focusing on the picture and not telling much else detail.
And is Boumans contributions to do with the making of this image?
- InitialLastName 8y agoI'm confused. Given that "images" are just data, how is taking a bunch of data about a black hole and combining it into a single "picture" of a black hole not also gathering data to help us study black holes? As I understand it, the notability of the project is that it found a novel way to process data from coordinated data collectors scattered around the earth into a single coherent data set (with more resolution than any single collector could gather).
- bartimus 8y agoIt also appears to have confirmed some of Einstein's theories (from what I understood)
- CydeWeys 8y agoDid you watch the announcement press conferences and Katie's TED talk? All this info is out there. Start with the links from yesterday on the HN story.