The Black Hole Picture, Explained By Astrophysicists | WIRED

Scientists captured and released the first-ever picture of a black hole. WIRED's Deputy Science Editor Adam Rogers spoke with Harvard's Michael Johnson and Andrew Chael, two of the members of the research team, to find out what the achievement means for science.


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[Critters]

We can photograph a black hole 50 million light years away, but we can't get a good video stream between two points on earth :)

[lamecat]

Stephen Hawking was probably shouting somewhere

[SenpieX]

**Flat Earther wants to know your location**

[Tom-qbrj]

Anyone else not understand a word they are talking about but keep going along with it?

[toppins]

Space makes me feel so small. I just can’t be comprehended how big it is.

[ansonhu]

If you go on Reddit you will see that the black hole in HD is actually the Firefox logo

[harryfu]

Imagine being a black hole millions of light years away and being caught on camera and become an instant meme

[gentleshadow]

Why did I think it was John and Hank Green in the thumbnail

[stevocanuck]

the real black hole is the side of the car seat. i'm still looking for my wallet

[taylorscholes]

My stepsisters dad actually works at the lab where they took the image :) pretty cool

[ViewtifulBeau]

What a time to be alive...

I agree it is very beautiful.

[MattKovac]

You gotta love that they can make a picture of a black hole but can t get a high quality webcam

[RobertEnterprises]

Great video and explanation, as well as the amazing animations! One thing I would give as advice to "Wired" and any other company or just user who posts videos in general, would be to enable the "translate" feature of the video, so that I, as well as many other user have the ability to translate the video in other languages so that even more people are able to understand it properly :)

I thought it was Hank Green on the thumbnail

[peterway]

Super massive black holes are the first thing that the James Webb telescope needs to look at when finally it is operational.

[EndyJR]

M87 is not the black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A is.

[cpz]

I’ve seen YouTube videos, read articles, and watched a documentary about black holes and I still don’t understand

[NoNTrvaL]

Why is only Katie Bouman being credited for this in the news online while these scientists are not?

[frank_calvert]

Thank you for actually showing the guy that did most of the code.

[abhivirale]

There should be a short film on their efforts difficulties and success!