Beautiful

[BudmanTX]

the door to heaven? hell? is it a coincidence that it looks like both an anus and a cervix?
and i'm only trying to be funny a little bit.....

to some in the science and astrophysics communities it is a door way......question is to what? and where does it go? lots of speculation, lots of math to.....

 

[420God]

to some in the science and astrophysics communities it is a door way......question is to what? and where does it go? lots of speculation, lots of math to.....

It takes you to the backside of a trippy bookcase.

 

[BudmanTX]

It takes you to the backside of a trippy bookcase.

isn't that the freakin truth......kinda gives you a stephen hawkins feel to it.....

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

It takes you to the backside of a trippy bookcase.

well, at least we know how to get out, put. the candle. back.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

it could be a gate to alternate dimensions, or perhaps to other black holes scattered around the universe...it's a big place, maybe we just haven't seen the "white hole" exits spewing all this shit back out, some unimaginable distance away? when the mass gets large enough, it triggers another big bang, and we all get to go back to start, do not pass go, do not take 200 dollars....¿

 

[cannabineer]

First image of a Black Hole 55 million light years away, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/10/black-hole-picture-captured-for-first-time-in-space-breakthrough

 

[Singlemalt]

Indeed, Sauron sees all, befitting the dark lord Morgoth

 

[cannabineer]

Indeed, Sauron sees all, befitting the dark lord Morgoth

 

[BudmanTX]

 

[cannabineer]

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Keep in mind that Pluto's orbit spans 80 AU (7.5 billion miles) and the event horizon of the M87 black hole has been estimated to have a "diameter" of 38 billion km or 25 billion miles. What we're seeing is where the accretion disc loses luminosity.

~edit~ I could not find the GIF where the earnest young lieutenant on the Epsilon-Seven station says "my ... God. Over eighty AUs in diameter!"

 

[SSGrower]

 

[cannabineer]

In the Christmas season of '83-84 I had and took an opportunity to see central Chile. One of the sights I saw was el volcán Osorno, which was described to me as "South America's Fuji-yama". Here's a pic that supports that claim.

The climate in the region is a dead ringer for NorCal or coastal Oregon.
The town of Puerto Montt, where coastal Chile breaks up into fjordlands that are much less drivable than boatable.

 

[BudmanTX]

In the Christmas season of '83-84 I had and took an opportunity to see central Chile. One of the sights I saw was el volcán Osorno, which was described to me as "South America's Fuji-yama". Here's a pic that supports that claim.

The climate in the region is a dead ringer for NorCal or coastal Oregon.
The town of Puerto Montt, where coastal Chile breaks up into fjordlands that are much less drivable than boatable.

ok, i have to say you just increase my bucket list of places to go.......damnit...lol

 

[BudmanTX]

Keep in mind that Pluto's orbit spans 80 AU (7.5 billion miles) and the event horizon of the M87 black hole has been estimated to have a "diameter" of 38 billion km or 25 billion miles. What we're seeing is where the accretion disc loses luminosity.

~edit~ I could not find the GIF where the earnest young lieutenant on the Epsilon-Seven station says "my ... God. Over eighty AUs in diameter!"

i'm just impressed they actually got it.....oh here is one of the people who had a hand in getting it. From my impression she was the one who designed the orginial algorithim to peace it together....meet Katie Bouman mit grad student.....

she in the news now

https://www.foxnews.com/science/katie-bouman-29-year-old-scientist-behind-first-real-image-of-black-hole-goes-viral

while i was snooping around i found this article as well

https://astrobites.org/2019/04/11/the-first-image-of-a-black-hole/?fbclid=IwAR3GcuvuI03rAjobxJiViDWr-TR30og9qTIrhpSTJJq_k9WnJTFWkoKwo9c

explains a little bit more of what they found.....doing this technique...

ok coffee is done, ready for my first cup.......

 

[Hydrotech364]

Hmmmmmm....

 

[BudmanTX]

Few images of the local flora around my house.....

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/12/us/andrew-chael-katie-bouman-black-hole-image-trnd/index.html

no idea why idiots do this kind of shit, she's lucky to have a decent co-worker who wants her to get her fair share of the credit

 

[BudmanTX]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/12/us/andrew-chael-katie-bouman-black-hole-image-trnd/index.html

no idea why idiots do this kind of shit, she's lucky to have a decent co-worker who wants her to get her fair share of the credit

she deserves about 90% of the credit, think the algorithim should be named after her hard work, this way she can refine it for other applications in the field.

Trolls will be trolls i guess...

 

[pthobson]

In the Christmas season of '83-84 I had and took an opportunity to see central Chile. One of the sights I saw was el volcán Osorno, which was described to me as "South America's Fuji-yama". Here's a pic that supports that claim.

The climate in the region is a dead ringer for NorCal or coastal Oregon.
The town of Puerto Montt, where coastal Chile breaks up into fjordlands that are much less drivable than boatable.

Looks like paradise

 

[Singlemalt]

First flight and landing of the Stratolaunch.

Hey Annie (@curious2garden ) did you see it?