The Event Horizon Telescope - photographing a black hole

[Ian7633]

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[Primalsea]

I would have thought that all hifi enthusiasts would be finding this discovery incredibly interesting and relevant. I’m sure that all of us have experienced our money passing through the event horizon when buying that new bit of kit that would supposedly fix all of our hifi woes.

[jandl100]

Scientific research in action

Katie Bouman - she led the development of the data processing algorithm.

''Watching in disbelief as the first image I ever made of a black hole was in the process of being reconstructed.''

[Primalsea]

It must be a fake, if they used Apple computers...

[ianlenco]

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Poor cat, its black hole has burnt the fur off its legs.

[Len Co]

Great album cover - the cat version I mean.

[Ian7633]

Poor cat, its black hole has burnt the fur off its legs.

Whiskers pilchard vindaloo......

[jandl100]

I saw the images yesterday and a colleague said that he thought it must be a joke of some kind as the image wasn’t very exciting

[Firebottle]

Just one of the simple things that impresses me is the reception of millimeter wavelength radio signals over the distance involved.

The frequency is 230GHz, that's 230 thousand million cycles per second in old speak for those that don't know.

[jandl100]

The frequency is 230GHz, that's 230 thousand million cycles per second in old speak for those that don't know.

You'd definitely need a supertweeter for that.