Expanding Horizons: A Panel Discussion on the EHT's Black Hole Discoveries

[ssarraf]

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Thanks for this update.

[sparhopper]

Of all the news clips, talks, and discussions flooding the internet, _this_ is the one to watch! Thanks all for the _hard work_ giving confirmation of all the hopes and expectations. -Cheers! *PS...* I think much of the difficulty, limits, technology and especially the importance this "blurry picture" represents is lost on much of the general public, and _that_ is why this post is so important!

[shashiramphal]

Can we place telescope on moon, and other possible planets to increase the size of telescope to the size of solar system to further increase resolution and increase horizon

[m.t-thoughts]

The question is, does the space around a growing black hole expanding as well?

[gunnaroddurrosarsson]

These people represent everything one should be proud of. They are excellent representatives of humanity.

[Psnym]

Why is learning more about black holes important? We are now validly, scientifically learning about the nature of space and time so well, that we can scientifically examine questions which not long ago were strictly the province of philosophy and theology. How did the Universe begin? How will it end? What is the ultimate nature of Reality?

[SimonJackson]

Orbital phase delay 1D parabolic season scope?

[kylefenrick]

I love science.

I had an idea while watching the photo reveal, and that is that when matter gets the to edge of a black hole, part of it is dropped in and comes out white dwarfs at the center of star nurseries. And when the jet from the black hole, reached the matter that was paired with it, Sparkes the processes which creates life. From microbiol upwards.
I personally think that there is life with flourishes in space, but I digress and it is but a theory.

[phanipp]

Great discussion guys ! Hail science hail humans, humanity and life of all forms

[FarFromEquilibrium]

We need Leonard Susskind to talk about it, in order to really understand it.

[gunnaroddurrosarsson]

Regarding Earth; in comparison to the black hole in question, which is 6.5 million million solar masses, Earth is not a rock. It hardly measures as a speck of dust in comparison to a grape. But it is our home. The one and only. So let's respect it. OK??

[ossiedunstan]

you cannot image that which releases nothing to image, the image was of the accretion disk, nothing that even looks like the EH, Remember the event horizon is not the point where light cannot escape from the star, its light coming from other sources, the dark star emits nothing we can image.


Thier first failure is calling it a hole, Holes have no mass, Its not possible under our universes laws of gravity.
John Michell (/ˈmɪtʃəl/; 25 December 1724 – 21 April 1793) was an English natural philosopher and clergyman who provided pioneering insights in a wide range of scientific fields, including astronomy, geology, optics, and gravitation. Considered "one of the greatest unsung scientists of all time", [1] he was the first person known to propose the existence of black holes in publication, the first to suggest that earthquakes travel in waves, the first to explain how to manufacture artificial magnets, and the first to apply statistics to the study of the cosmos, recognizing that double stars were a product of mutual gravitation. He also invented an apparatus to measure the mass of the Earth. He has been called both the father of seismology and the father of magnetometry.


Bye the consensus standard they are dark stars and they had been theorized over 200 fucking years before .John Michell actually done lectures and talks on dark stars.


jon wheelere coined them black holes and he was wrong bye 200 years

[thomaschurchwell]

as in time for the scientific community to ask for money

[itsahardlifewhenyourreneve]

The event horizon is spherical it's impossible to ever see the dark inside of a black hole..this doesn't make sense at all.

[vikramanand]

Why not make it clear that it is not a real image, a but a reconstruction from data collected from not light telescopes but radio telescopes. So we are still not seeing the real thing, but still seems like to be pretty close to the actual thing.