First ever blackhole photo

[Boosts]

That's pretty cool...

 

[IG Pro]

He died in 2018.. so maybe he´s seen it

That is so true, i hope he did seen it.

Also it is incredible that this image is old 55 Million years. As other mentioned above.

You gotta love universe for his mysteries.

For people interested in universe.
I've found an incredible timelapse video on YouTube enjoy:

 

[davids355]

Saw this on the news today as well. Blackholes are really fascinating. One of many examples showing how small and insignificant we are, and how little we know about the universe. But even so we’re making great progress.

 

[DulalKisku]

in 2017?
Really?
Who said that?

 

[paja93]

Maybe, maybe not. It could be easily a new hoax so they can get even more funds for their space missions.
It's interesting, but really, i am neutral about this.

 

[Louie AV]

Pretty sick if you ask ME!

 

[high mike]

in 2017?
Really?
Who said that?

There were simulations created in 2017 that they used during the presentation.
My understanding of this image was not taken in 2017 unless I am wrong.

 

[Veil123]

This blurry image is one of the most advanced technological achievements in the history of our fascination with space. Most of us can barely take a normal picture without this level of blurriness. Meanwhile this one is of something 50 million light years away. Before this, we could only speculate what we think a black hole looked like. The fact that we are seeing this in our lifetime is spectacular. Here is a bit more insight:

Its event horizon is 3 million times the size of our planet, which means it's larger than our entire solar system.

It weighs 6.5 billion of times more than our sun.

The light it emits is brighter than every other star in its galaxy combined.

And the light we're seeing is so old (55 million years) that when it was taken, the world was basically entirely covered in forests because of the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum. Europe and North American were rainforests. Alaska was temperate forests (and even palm trees). Even the poles had forests (Antarctica had sub-tropical rainforests).

Hammerhead sharks wouldn't evolve for another 30 million years, the earliest versions of modern mammalian orders (bats, primates, elephants, modern rodents), same for birds. Snakes grew 42ft long. It was a crazy time.

We can barely mentally handle the 4,500 years since the great pyramid was built. This is over 12 thousand times farther back.

And just imagine the size of that THING at this very moment... feeding itself and growing for 55 million years...

 

[spazzumes]

Can’t wait to see a higher res image in the future

 

[InfinityPeace]

Maybe, maybe not. It could be easily a new hoax so they can get even more funds for their space missions.
It's interesting, but really, i am neutral about this.

My take on it as well. And excuse me for playing Devil's advocate but---if a black hole is by definition an object so gravitationally dense that not even light can escape from it, how can we even be seeing a photo of it?

 

[terrycody]

Guys, stephen hawking said before when you enter in a black hole, there is a big chance you will enter into another universe, so, don't hold yourself!

 

[jazzc]

Goes to show how tiny and insignificant we are, compared to the universe.

Rather, I 'd say it shows how significant the humans are. It took billions of years for the universe to finally get someone to take a photo of a black hole

 

[Gogol]

It took billions of years for the universe to finally get someone to take a photo of a black hole

Lol, and I still wonder how they managed to take photo of a thing which is sucking light. Mind blowing!

 

[Gogol]

Rather, I 'd say it shows how significant the humans are.

Sorry for the double post. I can't edit the previous one anymore.. but.. Statistically speaking, there have to be several other planets which have creatures who are more intelligent than us. So, who knows? Maybe it is a false sense of pride!

 

[paja93]

My take on it as well. And excuse me for playing Devil's advocate but---if a black hole is by definition an object so gravitationally dense that not even light can escape from it, how can we even be seeing a photo of it?

Same question. Maybe im not educated enough on that topic but im pretty sure we shouldn't be able to see it anyway, hopefully someone will have an rational answer backed up by facts.

 

[IG Pro]

And just imagine the size of that THING at this very moment... feeding itself and growing for 55 million years...

Yeah it's insane how big the file is (i think it was around 5 petabytes - and one petabyte is this)

They've spoke about transfaring these huge data, and they claim that the fastest way is by plane.

Just imagine you'd upload that much data on internet and then download it.

Same question. Maybe im not educated enough on that topic but im pretty sure we shouldn't be able to see it anyway, hopefully someone will have an rational answer backed up by facts.

I guess @Sherb knows the answer or atleast can point you to the right answer. He seems to me well informed on this topic (which i am glad, love to read & learn new things about universe).

 

[Mediawiz]

My take on it as well. And excuse me for playing Devil's advocate but---if a black hole is by definition an object so gravitationally dense that not even light can escape from it, how can we even be seeing a photo of it?

Same question. Maybe im not educated enough on that topic but im pretty sure we shouldn't be able to see it anyway, hopefully someone will have an rational answer backed up by facts.

The orange light is the event horizon - it's not (in) the black hole itself. Beside that these are fotons and not visible light. The 'photo' is made with radio telescopes and colored by computer systems so we can have a visual (if I'm right - I'm not that educated about the subject - @Sherb).

Astronomics can use this event horizon (or edge of the hole) as a lens so watch even further into space.

 

[Gogol]

My take on it as well. And excuse me for playing Devil's advocate but---if a black hole is by definition an object so gravitationally dense that not even light can escape from it, how can we even be seeing a photo of it?

Same question from my side as well. My take on this would be that it lets some of the light (or other waves) escape, which got caught on the camera. I could be horribly wrong though.

 

[Th3 Canadian 3h]

Could have been some dirt on the lens lol

 

[jazzc]

Statistically speaking, there have to be several other planets which have creatures who are more intelligent than us.

There are some wild assumptions on that statistics but even so - how many? Few enough. So, it's still a humongous universe, billions of years and us (that much we know for sure) and maybe a handful of others. Still sounds super important