Black Hole Image Revealed for First Time Ever

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#1 qx0d
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http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2019/black_hole/

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/black-hole-image-makes-history/

Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy.

It measures 40 billion km across - three million times the size of the Earth - and has been described by scientists as "a monster".

The black hole is 500 million trillion km away and was photographed by a network of eight telescopes across the world.

It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of eight linked telescopes.

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#2 Sancho_Panzer
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It looks like a flamey hoop.

Cosmic!

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Awesome.

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Who knew the universe runs Furmark?

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Cool.

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Can we ban TC now? it creates useless threads that don't promote discussion, and more importantly doesn't contribute.

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I should note that the black hole actually doesn't look like they show. They "colorized" the ring, otherwise it would not be visible.

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#10  Edited By deactivated-60e799a72eb68
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The first one reminds me of Nathan Bedford Forrest's father.