<div dir="ltr">or at least the event horizons are (the real life kind, not the creapy af movie kind).</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 8:46 PM Gillian Densmore <<a href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">ok I'll say it here as well<div>Tell me that doesn't also look like the eye Sauron is infamous for using to great effect. lol!</div><div><br></div><div>Ok now that I got that out my system:</div><div>I had wondered if this is the same science stunt we used to image a blackhole...but what are they using as a light source and how do decide on the galaxy's center</div><div>was this also created by the sheer weight of the galaxy? or did a star go kaboom their good knows when and it just happened to be more or less dead center of the galaxy?</div><div>and are they all shaped like a toilet?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 8:08 PM David Eric Smith <<a href="mailto:desmith@santafe.edu" target="_blank">desmith@santafe.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Yeah, good stuff.<div><br></div><div>I’m not sure when I first heard about the ALMA upgrade that would give them phase coherence across the telescopes at the frequencies the EHT is using, and data archiving that would allow them to try to coherently register telescopes sited all around the world. It feels like about a decade ago. I have been waiting, since that first notice, to see this picture. The M87 image a couple years ago was the resolution of the real cliffhanger — whether they could get it to work at all — but this one was even 2+ years harder to push through technically.</div><div><br></div><div>I don’t imagine I would want to do that work. It seems like an incredible tedious grind, made for real professionals. But I am very glad to be a consumer of the outcome.</div><div><br></div><div>Eric</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 13, 2022, at 11:02 AM, Gillian Densmore <<a href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com" target="_blank">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/science/black-hole-photo.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/science/black-hole-photo.html</a><div><br></div><div>and it looks a bit like something melting on icecream. fudge or caramel</div></div>
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