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First photo of a Black hole ever recorded
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 9:49 pm
by WestTexasCrude
Center of Galaxy M87- 53 million lights years away. Not just a Black hole, but the largest ever recorded. The size of our entire Solar System and a mass of 6.5 Billion times of our Sun/
Re: First photo of a Black hole ever recorded
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:14 pm
by Animal
so that's what it looked like a few million years after the dinosaurs went extinct. i wonder what it looks like now?
Edit: nevermind, thanks biker.
Re: First photo of a Black hole ever recorded
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:38 pm
by HighNDry
Biker wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:14 pm
We have a winner
Re: First photo of a Black hole ever recorded
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:55 pm
by WestTexasCrude
Biker wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:14 pm
Yeah, I saw the 4chan "b" thread also.
Re: First photo of a Black hole ever recorded
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:02 pm
by WestTexasCrude
Flumper wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:14 pm
so that's what it looked like a few million years after the dinosaurs went extinct. i wonder what it looks like now?
Edit: nevermind, thanks biker.
That's the problem. Most may assume when they see the image that what they are seeing is a current image of a BH captured recently. Actually a photo 53 million years old. So to see what it looks like today, you have to wait 53 millions years and take another photo. But of course by that time your are again 53 Millions years behind. Etc etc.
Re: First photo of a Black hole ever recorded
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:11 pm
by Animal
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:02 pm
Flumper wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:14 pm
so that's what it looked like a few million years after the dinosaurs went extinct. i wonder what it looks like now?
Edit: nevermind, thanks biker.
That's the problem. Most may assume when they see the image that what they are seeing is a current image of a BH captured recently. Actually a photo 53 million years old. So to see what it looks like today, you have to wait 53 millions years and take another photo. But of course by that time your are again 53 Millions years behind. Etc etc.
actually, you can never get a picture of what it looks like "right now".
Re: First photo of a Black hole ever recorded
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:21 pm
by WestTexasCrude
Flumper wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:11 pm
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:02 pm
Flumper wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:14 pm
so that's what it looked like a few million years after the dinosaurs went extinct. i wonder what it looks like now?
Edit: nevermind, thanks biker.
That's the problem. Most may assume when they see the image that what they are seeing is a current image of a BH captured recently. Actually a photo 53 million years old. So to see what it looks like today, you have to wait 53 millions years and take another photo. But of course by that time your are again 53 Millions years behind. Etc etc.
actually, you can never get a picture of what it looks like "right now".
Take a picture of the moon tonight. That's what is looked like 2 seconds ago. Multiply out to the Big Bang 14 Billion years ago and everything in between.
Re: First photo of a Black hole ever recorded
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:54 pm
by DandyDon
Re: First photo of a Black hole ever recorded
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:59 pm
by Reservoir Dog
Re: First photo of a Black hole ever recorded
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:02 am
by WestTexasCrude
Re: First photo of a Black hole ever recorded
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 3:26 am
by Who
Re: First photo of a Black hole ever recorded
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 3:40 am
by megman
