Event Horizon - Black Hole Live

[rsbmw]

Tim330 said:

which suggests that the energy is generated by the acceleration of electrons moving at relativistic velocities in a magnetic field.

Doesn't that make it a giant laser beam?

[Eric Mc]

Or an x-ray generator. These things are super duper dynamos.

[ReverendCounter]

budgie smuggler said:

Watch this video, despite being from before the unveiling, it explains what you're seeing pretty well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUyH3XhpLTo

Can confirm, good and useful vid.

[ReverendCounter]

Terminator X said:

if you could get through what is on the other side of a black hole eg where does all the light go?

There has been talk of white holes which have the reverse properties, meaning nothing can enter them and stuff is continually ejected.Some speculate that these could be the other side of black holes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4aqGI1mSqo

^PBS Spacetime, a great space/science channel. A bit mind bending at times.

[hidetheelephants]

rsbmw said:

Doesn't that make it a giant laser beam?

It's a beam of matter rather than light, but MASER already has a meaning. Intergalactic space spaff. Blackholegasm.

The numbers are somewhat boggling.

[p1stonhead]

rsbmw said:

Tim330 said:

which suggests that the energy is generated by the acceleration of electrons moving at relativistic velocities in a magnetic field.

Doesn't that make it a giant laser beam?

Google gamma ray bursts

[citizensm1th]

It really is the eye of sauron

[Bill]

Documentary on BBC4 about the telescope now.

[anonymous-user]

The scale of these things just blows my mind

[Some Gump]

Do you want something hot and black inside ya?

How about some coffee then?

[nammynake]

Some light reading for those inclined. I’ll be printing this lot out and digesting over a coffee or two this weekend.

https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/...

[Beati Dogu]

Some Gump said:

Do you want something hot and black inside ya?

How about some coffee then?

Well played Dunkin' Donuts marketing dept, well played.

[RizzoTheRat]

When they say it's big, they're really not kidding


https://xkcd.com/2135/

[Some Gump]

RizzoTheRat said:

When they say it's big, they're really not kidding


https://xkcd.com/2135/

No mention of fishburn 7/10.

[Pupp]

Completely bonkers. This has got to be an image of a generation surely. Appreciate the background physics and observations of many years are *just* being confirmed and cemented but, !, how mind blowing is this...?

Inspirational in troubled times on a tiny world.

[Dogwatch]

Bill said:

Documentary on BBC4 about the telescope now.

I had no idea how much planning and organisation had gone into making that photograph - if that's the right word. Great achievement.

[Beati Dogu]

[Beati Dogu]

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/456067-mit-grad-...

[TTmonkey]

230 million trillion miles away.


Not sure I care.

[The Wookie]

Beati Dogu said:

Well played Dunkin' Donuts marketing dept, well played.