justoffal
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The first black hole was discovered in 1971 and there have been a number of others discovered since then. What is remarkable about this black hole is the amount of data gathered, the detail mapping of electromagnetic radiation to the vision spectrum, and also it's size and mass.Millions anxiously awaited the first photograph of an actual black hole...…..and...…..it's a hole that's black. I don't know what else they were expecting to see.View attachment 255179
The picture on the LEFT is the first image of a black hole revealed by scientists earlier today.
It's located over 50 million light years away in the galaxy M87, has a diameter of nearly 38 billion kilometers, spins clockwise, and checks in at a mass of over 7.22 billion times that of our sun.
Meanwhile back here on planet Earth, people are still debating whether or not the picture on the RIGHT is a human being.
If you were an avid fan of astronomy
you would realize that up until now black holes were always a matter of theory and speculation. There was some evidence that they existed but it was all circumstantial.
The debate has been raging for the past seventy years ever since Einstein predicted their existence. This photograph today is one more than vindication of Einstein's brilliance.
Of course it's not a typical photograph taken with an optical camera. However the end result is every bit the photograph they claim it to be and then some.
Every detail of that picture fits the description of a black hole such as Einstein imagined it to be some 70 to 80 years ago in his mathematical musings.
Jo
When they speak of a black hole as having size and mass much of that is figurative. The numbers actually do not match. 6.5 billion solar masses is a very small number compared to the diameter of the solar system. More accurately it should be said that the affected area of space is about the same diameter of our solar system.
Jo