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Post by Dragon Man on Apr 10, 2019 16:54:45 GMT
They have imaged a Black Hole another video:
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Post by vondragonnoggin on Apr 11, 2019 6:49:07 GMT
Started my day in complete awe of the monumental accomplishment this is!
Truly awesome image and collaboration to bring us this image. Very exciting to think the EHT might get better funding and get a dedicated telescope in space as well as add a few more on Earth to the collective.
Big thumbs up for the science win today!
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Post by vondragonnoggin on Apr 11, 2019 7:12:05 GMT
The scale of this is incredible. They also imaged Sag A star in our Milky Way.
The shadow alone in the image of M87 was 40 Micro arcseconds at 53.5 million light years away compared to 75 Micro arcseconds for Sag A star at 26,000 light years away.
Truly humongous black hole.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2019 11:11:40 GMT
I have just been looking at an article in Australian Sky and Telescope from May/June 2012 on Imaging a Black Hole by Camille Carlisle. One notable comment " Its almost certain that Astronomers will directly image black hole silhouettes within the next decade" The targets would be Sagittarius A* (53 microarcseconds wide) and M87 which would be 8 microseconds wide.There were a number of artists impressions of what it would look like depending on the tilt of the accretion disc to our line of sight cheers Paul
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Post by Dragon Man on May 6, 2019 12:58:10 GMT
WOW! It's like a premonition!
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2019 16:37:31 GMT
In 2012 the Event Horizon Telescope consisted of 4 telescopes with another 8 planned around the world. Everyone at that stage thought that Sagittarius A* would be the first imaged before M87. cheers Paul
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Post by davy on May 10, 2019 11:36:25 GMT
Could have shown you all photos years ago,, black hole in my wallet with buying Astronomy kit. Lol
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