The first photo of a black hole

Splinter · Apr 10th 2019

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“That radio wave then has to travel 60,000 years through the M87 galaxy, and then another 55 million years through intergalactic space” to reach Earth.

Incredible and you can read all about it here.

UK Man · Apr 10th 2019

I read that last night on the Beeb and am still none the wiser what it's all about. Not sure I want to either.

daniel · Apr 11th 2019

Amazing!!!!

Rice · Apr 12th 2019

Never thought it would look like a cat’s eye.

This is an interesting bit of background on the 29 year old woman whose algorithm made the photo possible.

https://m.phys.org/news/2019-0…tie-bouman-algorithm.html

The first photo of a black hole

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