Black hole about to be imaged... oh er missis

Black hole about to be imaged... oh er missis

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Boring_Chris

2,348 posts

122 months

Friday 21st April 2017
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Any news on this? Or is it too early yet?

jmorgan

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36,010 posts

284 months

Friday 21st April 2017
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Awaiting South Pole data. October is when they can get it

Edit. Forgot link
https://www.universetoday.com/134996/black-hole-im...

Edited by jmorgan on Saturday 22 April 06:34

Engineer792

582 posts

86 months

Friday 21st April 2017
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ash73 said:
Just been watching this presentation by Prof Andy Fabian, he discovered black holes emit incredibly low frequency sound (54 octaves below middle C, with a frequency of 10 million years) which propagates interstellar gas and influences the surrounding galaxy:

https://youtu.be/yheZOkPwagc

On a typical piano your left arm would need to be 9m long to reach the note!
There's an outside chance you might be able to grow a fingernail long enough, however the piano string would be far too long to fit on this planet.