https://i.imgur.com/y2h9U6O.png
You've got ten seconds to beat it
Mass Effect 2 wasn't far off.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/273970711330108448/07C35AEBB5979E8C8818E270DC4CE7A6DBBF3041/?imw=1024
Fucking amazing to see the real deal, blurry though it may be.
The forbidden SpaghettiO
So...what's the orange bit about then?
Food.
well shit. this'll be the nth time Space Engine has to change the black hole rendering tech
call me spoiled but i feel disappointed. not by how it looks like because i think it looks beautiful and was astonished by the sight, but i felt a bit disappointed when i realized that it wasn't a real image of the black hole. it's not a visible light image--it's a radio wave image. it's not like finally seeing a real photo of cthulhu, it's like seeing the silhouette of the footprint of cthulhu. still, i guess it's pretty cool...
I mean, that makes it even more cool. Something so vast and incomprehensible can only be viewed from certain special methods. When you think about it that makes this image possess power that we can't fully understand yet.
Interesting to see how many people think is what the black hole looks like in the visible light spectrum.
It is mines
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lotr/images/e/e1/Gollum_Render.png/revision/latest?cb=20141218075509
I'm mildly dissapointed because it looked exactly like I expected. Which is probably testament to scientists actually having a really good idea of what they were looking at before they even looked at it which is rather impressive in its own right.
if stephen hawking lived for another year he'd have seen it
I'm not expert, but:
Voyager 1 is about 18.8 billion km away
The EHT website puts the diameter of the black hole's event horizon at 40 billion km across.
So pretty legit then basically.
Keep in mind this also isn't exactily a photo. It's data extrapolated into an image. The actual thing is black adn white, and terribly pixilated. A lot of astronomy pictures are in false color like that.
I also like that our resident black hole is mkaing an Ok sign at us.
Why does it matter if it's visible light or not? It's still photons one way or another, just at a different energy level. Imagine having eyes that can see radio waves and it's the same thing, it's all electromagnetic radiation in the end.
Visible light looks a lot cooler.
http://school298.spb.ru/images/300/DSC100363674.jpg
You better watch yourself, wouldn't want to say that with black holes around. You never know.
I'm fairly certain it would look the same on practically the entire electromagnetic spectrum considering how energetic these things are.
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