IT'S HAPPENING! THE FIRST EVER PICTURE OF A BLACK HOLE!
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@snder It is **not** the first ever picture of a blackhole. Why is it every time we get pictures of blackholes everyone claims it is the first one?
@freemo Well, it is. All other 'pictures' are simulated. This one is a REAL photograph
@snder Not true, we have real, nonsimulated pictures of blackholes, many of them in fact.
@freemo This was litterly a world-wide announcement from the scientific community
@snder yes, but what they meant was this is the first time a blackhole was photographed such that hte blackhole takes up more than a single pixel of the camera. We have a TON of blackhole pictures where we see the lensing effect of the blackhole (same effect we see in the new picture). They were just a MUCH smaller resolutions.
Its just saying "first ever" sounds cooler. The scientists understand and know the distinction.
Its a bit like showing the picture of beetlegues from a few years back that had multi-pixel resolution and saying "the first ever picture of a star", its simply not true but has a hint of truth in it.
@freemo Haha if you look at it that way we’ve probably have more undiscovered bodies in those photos then stuff we know x)
We knew indeed how the gravitational lensing worked in the photos but if you compare the photos I would say this is a first in bh photography
@snder "bh"?
I mean the only reason its any different than a star is because it is invisible. So really you can NEVER get a picture of a blackhole. The **only** thing you can take a picture of is the gravitational lensing effect.
So by that logic we still dont have a picture of a blackhole, unless you consider the lensing effect to be a picture of the blackhole in which case we already had such pictures :).
