Astronomers reveal world-first picture of a black hole

By Aaron on April 10, 2019 in Mind

Simulated view of a black hole in front of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Note the gravitational lensing effect, which produces two enlarged but highly distorted views of the Cloud. Across the top, the Milky Way disk appears distorted into an arc.

Astronomers have found and taken a photo of a black hole and yet there’s no live cams from the moon to earth. Typical, we should not be surprised, especially since there’s evidence of life on the bottom of the sea that we’ve not explored on earth, so why should it be a surprise that there’s no live streams coming from the moon, of earth. (Naughty Beaver asks)

Seriously this is incredible science to be able to get an imagine of something so far away from earth, with so many separate devices, all of which send a signal all that way back to various different research Astronomers, who then sort, interpret and collate massive amounts of data, into a cohesive picture of something, that up until now (if we’re to accept this science) has been entirely theoretic. A picture tells a thousand words, black holes are not fun.

The supermassive black hole at the core of supergiant elliptical galaxy Messier 87, with a mass ~7 billion times the Sun's,[1] as depicted in the first image released by the Event Horizon Telescope (10 April 2019).[2][3][4] Visible are the crescent-shaped emission ring and central shadow, which are gravitationally magnified views of the black hole's photon ring and the photon capture zone of its event horizon. The crescent shape arises from the black hole's rotation; the shadow is about 2.6 times the diameter of the event horizon.[3] — The supermassive black hole at the core of supergiant elliptical galaxy Messier 87, with a mass ~7 billion times the Sun’s, as depicted in the first image released by the Event Horizon Telescope (10 April 2019). Visible are the crescent-shaped emission ring and central shadow, which are gravitationally magnified views of the black hole’s photon ring and the photon capture zone of its event horizon. The crescent shape arises from the black hole’s rotation; the shadow is about 2.6 times the diameter of the event horizon.

The science behind this black hole snap shot is really amazing, I’m not negating the incredible scientific achievement this deep space probing represents, certainly we need to learn about our universe and this presentation is astounding and mind-boggling.

A black hole is a region of spacetime exhibiting such strong gravitational effects that nothing—not even particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light—can escape from inside it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole. Wikipedia