The first photo of a black hole

[Chubba]

I thought it would be bigger.

[SCAudiophile]

Originally Posted by Chubba

I thought it would be bigger.

LOL! It is,...infinitely so!

[2fastdriving]

If I look closely, I can almost see my wallet being sucked into it when I am viewing on this site.

[vegaracer1]

Funny comment.
Now we know a place big enough to handle consuming the national debt.

Originally Posted by 2fastdriving

If I look closely, I can almost see my wallet being sucked into it when I am viewing on this site.

[radio times]

It's only 2 million X the size of the sun. You've gotta love dem light years, I ain't having it round for tea and cakes.

[Family Progtitioner]

Originally Posted by 2fastdriving

if i look closely, i can almost see my wallet being sucked into it when i am viewing on this site.

lol

[PHC1]

6.5 Billion times the mass of our sun. The size of its inner shadow is nearly the size of our solar system. It is a very hungry beast snatching up and chewing on matter which produces the "accretion disk" of dust, gas and glowing plasma at millions of degrees that makes it possible to see it and it is constantly growing...

Our own "Sagittarius A" black hole at the center of the Milky Way is just a baby by comparison to the beastly hole in the M87 galaxy that was pictured.


Here is an interesting video of how to understand the image of the black hole.


https://youtu.be/zUyH3XhpLTo

[PHC1]

Of course the even more fascinating part is the theory of the world as a hologram. The black hole is thought to contain all the "indestructible" information of the universe. If it was somehow possible to be at the "event horizon" of the black hole, the past, present and future would unfold before the eyes of the "cosmic tourist". Of course that in itself implies the "future" has already happened?

In any case, fascinating video by Leonard Susskind on black holes and the theory of the world as a hologram. https://youtu.be/2DIl3Hfh9tY

[oddeophile]

My name is Neo!

[For The Love of Music]

So we see this, but what does it really mean? Is there another side, and if so, what’s really there?