First ever image of a black hole revealed

[ET2SN]

Originally Posted by Reece

^ if that is Earth where is the sun and other planets? Most are much bigger!!


I thought it looked like a donut!! Mmmm, yum!!

Space is a pretty big place. Like, a LOT bigger than the pacific ocean.

When you get down to it, statistically speaking, we don't exist.

[Jimbuna]

The black hole or more commonly referred to in the UK as Brexit.

[Reece]

I was thinking of something else, but I better not elaborate!

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Reece

I was thinking of something else, but I better not elaborate!

You dirty old man

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

The neat thing about infinity is that even a small percentage of infinity is still infinity.

Nice!

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by Reece

I was thinking of something else, but I better not elaborate!

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

The neat thing about infinity is that even a small percentage of infinity is still infinity.

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

Nice!

Sorry, but that is a logical fallacy, I would say. A part of infinity mathematically is "infinity minus X". Thus: a finite quantum is left, and a finite quantum is what forms just the part.

I would conclude that just a part of infinity still being infinite, is something unimaginable and impossible.

You cannot divide or multiply, add to and substract from infinity. Its infinite. Alter it on a quantitative level, and it is not finite anymore. AND WAS NOT FROM THE BEGINNING ON.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Stop being so pedantic. It doesn't suit you.

A lot of people would say it suits me, and I like Rockstar's summation. I don't know if the Universe is infinite, and I certainly never will, but as far as we can tell it might as well be.

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Stop being so pedantic. It doesn't suit you.

Lol I had look that word up. But I don't need to pretend to be a rocket scientist to know a black hole cannot be photographed. Alerting others to that fact was why I clicked on the clickbait headline which may lead others too believe it could.
Also, it pays to know these kinds things especially since my hobby is astrophotography. Helps prevent me from looking like an idiot in front of others at star parties. Part of my library includes Deep Sky Imagining Primer by Charles Bracken a very good but difficult read for beginners.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

But I don't need to pretend to be a rocket scientist to know a black hole cannot be photographed.

You are splitting hairs. No one was expecting an image of the event horizon, even less the singularity itself, but an image of a black hole which we absolutely got. The image shows everything expected; the material disk, the distortion of the disk and the dark area caused by the black hole in the center.

If it's not an image of a black hole, then what is it in your mind?

[Skybird]

Wormholes, black holes, and the likes...








The reasoning for the chosen depiction of both, are interesting!?

[Mr Quatro]

If the earth is flat, as some still believe ... in fact there is even a flat earth society ...

Then how come everything we can see with our naked eye in our solar system and beyond with telescopes and now a far Horizon camera ... is round?

Time for this flat earth society to give in and agree that not only is everything round, but is by intelligent design.

Which is another point no one can prove.

[Mr Quatro]

Yep! It's real I looked it up they are still in belief that the world is flat

https://www.themanual.com/travel/fla...-2020-details/

Despite all evidence to the contrary, for more than a century the Flat Earth Society has maintained that our planet is not, indeed, a sphere. Instead, they posit that it’s a massive, flat disc with the Arctic Circle at its center and Antarctica as a towering, 150-foot-tall ice wall around Earth’s rim. They’re confident NASA is a black ops government agency whose sole purpose is to guard this wall from naysayers, dragons, and kraken. They also firmly believe gravity is an illusion, we’re orbited by an invisible “antimoon,” and the sun is only 3,000 miles above the Earth. The society dismisses all photographic and scientific evidence to the contrary as fake.

[mapuc]

I who are very interested in our univers and the science surrounding it, was very excited when I saw the picture.

The little knowledge I have gained by watching all these documentaries about our univers told me or trying to remember what I have learned about black hole and the all the things around this hole.

Markus

[THE_MASK]

Everything that is pulled into the singularity has to go somewhere doesnt it . Does the singularity get bigger or does the matter that makes up the singularity have mass and no mass at the same time ? or does the matter become just space (the blackness) . Does the event horizon get bigger over time ? These are questions i need to know .