“You know of what I speak, Gandalf: a great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame.”
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Article by Phil Plait explaining the science behind the Event Horizon Telescope’s ground-breaking image of …
Article by Phil Plait explaining the science behind the Event Horizon Telescope’s ground-breaking image of the supermassive black hole in M87 – the world’s first-ever actual image of the event horizon (or, more precisely, silhouette) of a black hole.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-first-image-of-the-event-horizon-of-a-black-hole
Birdsite thread by @AstroKatie on how the image was produced and why the ring looks the way it does, plus simulations of different viewing angles.
First ever direct image of a black hole! The supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 — 6.5 billion times as massive as the Sun! #EHT #BlackHole The image is better than I expected! pic.twitter.com/Tv7I36v4xQ
— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) April 10, 2019
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