Inside the black hole image that made history | Sheperd Doeleman

Inside the black hole image that made history | Sheperd Doeleman 2,874,484 viewsMay 10, 2019 TED 21.2M subscribers At the center of a galaxy more than 55 million light-years away, there's a supermassive black hole with the mass of several billion suns. And now, for the first time ever, we can see it. Astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman, head of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, speaks with TED's Chris Anderson about the iconic, first-ever image of a black hole -- and the epic, worldwide effort involved in capturing it. Get TED Talks recommended just for you! Learn more at https://www.ted.com/signup . The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. Follow TED on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TEDTalks Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/TED 4,505 Comments rongmaw lin Add a comment... veni84darcy veni84darcy 3 years ago "If you want a global telescope, you need a global team." Well said!! 2K Joannis Paul Torayno Joannis Paul Torayno 2 years ago This breakthrough is a clear proof that humanity can solve the wildest mysteries of the universe if humanity do it as humanity. Not as americans, russians, asians or so whatever, but as humanity. Only wished sir Stephen Hawkings lived to see this breakthrough. And we also have to thank sir Albert Einstien for his works. 1.4K Sbu Mdluli Sbu Mdluli 2 years ago What all this tells me is that Einstein was really really genius 3.6K Devansh Dhadda Devansh Dhadda 1 year ago Let’s just appreciate how well black hole was made in movie “Interstellar “ 5.5K Marlo Romero Marlo Romero 2 years ago imagine if stephen hawking live more than at least 1 year, he will be able to see the thing that he's been studying for his whole life. 8.2K Ethos The Rapper Ethos The Rapper 1 year ago "The universe told us what to do" Beautiful. 1.1K Jatin D. Jatin D. 2 years ago Technically the image of the blackhole is 57 million years old soooo basically we took a picture of a blackhole when the dinosaurs still roamed around 3.3K lxr lxr 2 years ago Imagine his resume, casually I have a PhD, I’ve studied and taught physics for decades, oh and I took a picture of a black hole 55 million light years away 1K Lukas Mihara Lukas Mihara 3 years ago (edited) The thing I really like about this, is the fact that we achieved this globally all together, instead of in some kind of a competition against each other. I believe many problems would be solvable if we just did it all together. 234 Aniruddha Bhattacharjee Aniruddha Bhattacharjee 1 year ago (edited) He so humbly says " I hope it's inspiring for everyone". Man, any uninspired person should be thrashed. This is why we are here, this is the reason why life exists. 378 BigGucci 3hunna BigGucci 3hunna 3 years ago Wow this guy really knows how to articulate everything so that I can have just a fundamental grasp on how this image came to existence and how I can really appreciate it's beauty 723 Sagar Mehra Sagar Mehra 1 year ago Whenever I feel sad for being alone in life, I watch videos about our universe. Calms me down. 565 Pratheek Bhat Pratheek Bhat 3 years ago Remember, that black hole is 57million light years away. Therefore the image we captured was the state of black hole a very loooooong time ago. Damn!! 4.6K Mike S Mike S 2 years ago The 305 people who disliked this video are flat earthers. 2.6K Digital Bear Productions Digital Bear Productions 2 years ago This guy presents himself very well and very articulate. Smart man with well detailed explanations. 75 ghania ahmed ghania ahmed 6 months ago This man literally explained the whole situation that even a doctor can understand what he’s talking about. I mean I’m a space science student and if I were to explain it I would have probably used technical terms but he made it so simple that general audience can understand.. Really inspiring 9 Some Species Some Species 3 years ago (edited) We now have an official image of blackhole but still I don't know who the heck Ted is 5.6K Krish kawale Krish kawale 1 year ago even if I did not understand half of the things he said ..it just so heartwarming to see that he's trying to explain the complexity dynamics to average ppl like us who are watching it. Right man for the job ! 47 Sriram R Sriram R 3 years ago I wish Stephen Hawking lived to see this 6K Beatrice T Beatrice T 3 years ago The speaker, Sheperd Doeleman, really knows how to pull the audience in. 534 Some Species Some Species 3 years ago It's just crazy how Einstein predicted that image hundred years ago when the time there are no computers 1.1K SuBhaYU BiSwaS SuBhaYU BiSwaS 2 years ago I am so glad that i could witness this in my lifetime. I am always so fascinated by Black holes. 557 Quỳnh Lâm Ngô Quỳnh Lâm Ngô 2 years ago (edited) They announced the image of the black hole on my birthday, April 10th, which is a great deal to me because I have always been fascinated by black holes and worm holes ever since I could read. I would spend hours looking through wikipedia pages about black holes, Einstein, Hawking, etc. I watched Interstellar over and over. All the images and the scenes were just simulations. I thought the day I can see a real black hole would never come. And it came, on my birthday. How can it be more awesome! 86 ManUtd18 ManUtd18 1 year ago Every once in a while I come back to watch this video. It’s so incredible how we’ve managed to produce the very first image of a black hole 17 Rodrigo Borges Rodrigo Borges 2 years ago So I lived to see a black hole and the Hubble Deep Field. Amazing times we are living in. I can only imagine what the next generation will witness. Things are speeding up fast. 326 Restfulrain Restfulrain 1 year ago I really appreciate this guy dumbing it down for us to comprehend what we are looking at. Blackholes are very complex and we still don't know the factors that make up dark matter and the singularity but overall i understand the concept of how they are formed and how we percieve what we are looking at. Bravo, makes me wish I was more into science in my working life. 17 David Santamaría David Santamaría 3 years ago (edited) We never had a picture of a Black hole before, then 20 countries and more than 200 people join and Bam there it is, now imagine if we could join as a specie, how many mysteries could we solve, how many solutions could we find? 1.7K Rang Klos Rang Klos 3 years ago Hope one day we all can live and work together like this group of scientists. 34 Rick Harold Rick Harold 3 years ago That’s just awesome! Especially the cooperative nature of the discovery! 42 Nabeel Asif Nabeel Asif 1 year ago I'm honored just to be alive at the same time as this incredible discovery 21 Gig27 Gig27 3 years ago The fact that they needed to cooperate with other countries to take this picture is a principle one should use in the design of a Mars expedition. The fact that a country should take the burden of sending astronomers to Mars is something that belongs in the 1960s. With collaboration, the project becomes more realistic. 6 Jakov Andreski Jakov Andreski 1 month ago The idea to synchronize so many telescopes, and then have them emulate an earth sized lens is beyond genious. Kudos to all the scientist that are a part of this. I find this more impressive than actually observing a black hole 1 T T 1 year ago This is so huge. It's a shame news like this isn't front and center, we have coverage on which celebrity got spotted having a bad hair day or who is boning who. This should be household knowledge. 112 Alvin R Alvin R 3 years ago The first blurry image of Pluto was 23 years ago. Within a half, or maybe even a quarter of a decade from now, we'll see the detailed image of that blurry Black Hole. 536 Tahani Myra Tahani Myra 4 weeks ago (edited) I watch this video whenever I feel down because I'm reminded that awesome people like him exist and did the seemingly impossible with a group of amazing humans. Our universe is so beautiful <3 Mehul Kacha Mehul Kacha 1 year ago (edited) At 5:21 When Sir says "I still love it" I felt it🥺 I wish Sir Hawking would have been there among us to witness this historical moment 🥺🌌🖤 16 Thomas Dohlman Thomas Dohlman 2 years ago Sheperd Doeleman and his colleagues are doing fantastic, mind boggling work! Keep it up! Cannot wait until you release the next image of our own black hole, and I hope it is sharper than this one. Tom Mulhall Tom Mulhall 2 years ago Shep is so articulate, great video, a great book that details the Event Horizon Telescope and Shep's efforts is "Einstein's Shadow" by Seth Fletcher really worth reading! 3 Fathom L Fathom L 3 years ago "And as scientists, we naturally come together to do something like this." They are great! 4 Sagnik Lahiri Sagnik Lahiri 5 months ago I feel many might have already watched it but there's a phenomenal documentary on the process of capturing/creating this image and the events happening alongside it in London with late Dr. Stephen Hawking and his colleagues. It's titled "Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know." Any astronomy/cosmology/astrophysics enthusiast should definitely watch it! :)))) 1 Robert Dora Robert Dora 2 years ago (edited) Wow, what a time we live in!!! Amazing exploration and presentation. 3 Derek Dunlap Derek Dunlap 1 year ago I think this was a wonderful accomplishment. Only issue I had was I wish he could have explained this more clearly for novices. I think it would have gotten much more media exposure when it happened. H K H K 1 year ago 10:34 in order to surpass all the struggle and achieve something that has never been done in history, even people come together and build a core, just like a black hole. Each and every aspect of life, even if it's a nucleus or a black hole as big as our solar system is letting us learn new things every day. Thank you for inspiring us to give more and struggle so that we can achieve in the end! Marion HUBERT Marion HUBERT 1 year ago I love this topic so much! I have just an idea that came up to my mind from something you mentioned. What about if we, our galaxy are a black hole ourself... As all the planets are kind of stuck to orbit around the sun with all the stars... We do not really have the ability to get out of it and what is outside of our galaxy is out of reach... Can this be an hypothesis? Orden Just Orden Just 2 years ago Excellent talk with excellent questions asked of the presenter. I was wondering why part of the ring is brighter myself. So, do all black holes spin? Would every black hole picture look like this? Or might there be a spinless black hole whose picture is a perfectly uniform-looking ring of lght? Chairman Meow Chairman Meow 1 year ago It's crazy that when I was a kid, I don't even know if black holes were in the lexicon. Most people definitely had never heard of it, or the theory. And we've gone from that, to having a picture of one. Incredible. Saianna Sweet Saianna Sweet 3 years ago One of the best Ted talks. You can see how he loves black holes and how exited he is about it 😆♥️ 17 Smörgåsbord Smörgåsbord 2 years ago I could listen to Dr. Doeleman explain ultra thrilling concepts like this all day long. dartagnanx1 dartagnanx1 2 years ago What an amazing human achievement. I never thought it would happen in my lifetime. Giovanni Guarino Giovanni Guarino 1 year ago (edited) Allow me the doubt. How can that be a black hole the one showed in the video? According to the currently accepted theory, a star that is so close to a black hole should be affected by the event horizon effect. This means that the portion of the star closest to the black hole should rotate more and more slowly, while its outermost portion should rotate more rapidly (compared to the closest one). Basically, you should have an elongation of the star with a noticeable trail with a strong distortion effect. I don't see any such effect in the image that justifies there is a black hole in the middle, even in case there were more stars close to the black hole. Either that, or the model that defines the black hole is wrong. This is yet another proof that cosmology is no longer a science since the introduction of the theory of relativity, as it takes the opposite path to the scientific method, which should be: observation, analysis and definition of the theory, not the contrary. 1 zodiacfml zodiacfml 3 years ago I could feel that he's suffering during the talk. He is simplifying the concepts the best way he can so that an average person can understand but I feel his urge to explain it more accurately for their scientific community. To be honest, I'm more amazed with gravitational wave detections than this image. The GWs don't have images but soundwaves/waveforms 1 That Tech Channel That Tech Channel 2 months ago Props to the people who worked on this image 👏🏻👏🏻 1 Chasing Horizons Chasing Horizons 3 years ago Post more talks on cosmology. Thanks 1.3K Racer Girl Racer Girl 2 years ago You can thank Kip Thorne and the Interstellar movie team for figuring it out. Us who saw Interstellar in IMAX were among the first people in the world to see what a black hole looks like. That was in 2009-2010. 2 Kev n Ash Griffitts Kev n Ash Griffitts 2 years ago I can’t even get my head around the idea of being able to capture an image of an object with millions of other objects blocking the view. Like trying to photograph a single tree in the center of the forest, while standing outside of the forest 🤔 65 Doctor_9 Doctor_9 1 year ago I'm amazed that human beings can image such an object at a near unimaginable scale and distance from the Earth. The other thing that blows my mind is a black hole is a sphere in three dimensions, but it's also a hole. The universe sure is a crazy chaotic place. Justin Walker Justin Walker 3 years ago I watch and I listen and I fascinated but even though I understand the concepts I cannot act like my brain can compute, this is above a genius level accomplishment. Elvin Rivera Elvin Rivera 2 years ago It's fascinating how something so far away from average person comprehension can be that interesting and intriguing, yet dangerous to the life of an universe:"money gets you freedom and information gains you knowledge" Carlos Alfonzo Calderon Carlos Alfonzo Calderon 2 years ago It's so beautiful and mesmerising to see how he speaks so passionately about this picture. 4 SpartanF8 SpartanF8 2 years ago Absolutely beautiful achievement of science and humanity. I wonder how many people in my home country of the United States believe it is real. Hopefully my expectations are subverted. JHaz JHaz 2 years ago (edited) Earth: Dude, I'm lagging Black Hole: What's your ping? Earth: 57 million years. Black Hole: Try resetting your router. 3.4K SUBHAM GOSWAMI SUBHAM GOSWAMI 1 year ago Massive respect for him and his team.....🙏 Cosmic Lyrics Cosmic Lyrics 1 year ago (edited) Always dreamt of becoming an astronomer, sadly I couldn't, but it just pleases my soul that I'm alive during a time when humanity reached mars (the rover, and maybe humans too in the near future, who knows) and we found a piece of the universe's biggest mysteries, a image of a blackhole!! I would pay anything to be in that ship too Shephard 1 Vijay Das Vijay Das 2 years ago So is no one going to thank TED's Chris Anderson for how eloquently he could question the astrophysicist which could be understood by the audience and at the same time capture what the scientist had to say. jacob loyd jacob loyd 2 years ago When I was a kid i used to think about space and watch any programming that dealt with space and the universe. I remember reading about the mysteries of black holes and how powerful they were and it made me think that what if a black hole held our galaxy together. One day I heard that at the center of each galaxy is a black hole and from then on I thought I was the smartest person in the world. After that I was hooked on science, knowing that i knew so little of life I couldn't help to look up at the stars every night and wonder what other mysteries are out there to be found. Love science and explore your most inner desires. Jonathan Hinks Jonathan Hinks 11 months ago (edited) Credit to the Team who created this stunning image - Full Credit to the Creator of this Awesome Structure ! :-) 1 Linda Phelps Linda Phelps 2 years ago Amazing.. Great photo seeing how much had to be exactly spot on. You have officially blown this old brain. When I was young we had 9 planets. Thank you so much. Wow !! 5 PorkChopCreative PorkChopCreative 2 years ago So I am clearly no physicist, but have a curious question. What makes light move at that specific constant speed? If a black hole is able to warp light in its direction wouldn’t that mean that a black hole could effect the speed of light? Would that boost make light faster/slower? ARLINDO COELHO ARLINDO COELHO 3 years ago Muito bom 👏👏👏👏 Streaky Bird Streaky Bird 2 years ago Simply amazing! May I live long enough to see what may come of this. 4 derek miles derek miles 2 years ago An amazing image, and what an achievement. I was just wondering if this Black hole got too close to our solar system, would this mean our flat earth friends would be right at least for a moment or two. 4 Benji B-Side Benji B-Side 10 months ago I could only but imagine the mind and the joy of Einstein, if he got to see that image. 12 846nick 846nick 1 year ago i love how this guy loves space so much and he really enjoys wat he does 18 jerry baker jerry baker 2 years ago Good to see scientist working together from around the world. Shamsher Balouch Shamsher Balouch 2 days ago Red salute to this dude for explaining the matter threadbare, his knowledge about astronomy is encyclopedic. Osman Delic Osman Delic 10 months ago (edited) If I'm not mistaken, this guy is standing next to a table with 64 hard drives and that's enough capacity for half a picture from one telescope. Really impressive Anand Singha Anand Singha 1 year ago (edited) Probes to the guy for explaining everything so beautifully. One can't help but marvel. Enrique Buga Enrique Buga 1 year ago (edited) It's is a big think for a mankind to see the vision which is over 55 million light year's away. Albert Einstein predict the law of that friction of light passing through the blackhole And giving a circle image 100 year's ago. Wow ! what an observational person. I would like to say thank you for the team who had work hard and make it dream come true. It is very informative. 👍🏻 Great job ! Max Murphy Max Murphy 2 years ago Stephen Hawking was right about the quantum world and the gravitininal world coming together to form a singularity ,Einstein had doubts. It's a fact 37 Tobias Trane Tellefsen Tobias Trane Tellefsen 2 years ago In my opinion, this black hole look so beautiful, more beautiful than any fancy man made animation of a black hole. Kudos to the universe!👍 Jonny Lace Jonny Lace 2 years ago When you realize TED is more of a mystery than the universe 11 Doobie Keebler Doobie Keebler 3 months ago I will never be able to comprehend how something like this actually exists. Too incredible for words. maharjan chaa maharjan chaa 1 year ago (edited) Well done! New footstep in moving towards wisdom of galaxies! 1 Shashwat Kauraw Shashwat Kauraw 9 months ago Thanking these guys on behalf of whole species for doing such a remarkable job👏 Can't wait to see how Milky way's blackhole would look like 1 R Gamer R Gamer 2 years ago Knowledge and discovery aside, this is how you give credit to all the 200 members in the team. It wasn't a one man job. I'm comparing it to the other video where they gave credit to just one woman, title read "The Woman behind the black hole discovery". Yes she did the algorithm but without data, there's no use to it. Everything is interdependent and every cog in the machine is important. Hats off to all these scientists and hats off to taking another step for mankind. 7 Hoop-D Jonez Hoop-D Jonez 1 year ago I wish I could ask. So if one side of the BH is brighter does that mean that It is spinning in a specific direction? Clockwise, or whatever, or north to south. Does that mean the black hole has some linear properties? Chuck's Astrophotography Chuck's Astrophotography 3 years ago This was so amazing, I wish I could have even played a small role in this project. 11 Dasun Nirmitha Dasun Nirmitha 2 years ago It took Youtube a year to finally recommend me something worthy 367 TruRequiem TruRequiem 2 years ago If I had a time machine, I'd go back to when Einstien was attending university, and his theories were rejected and I'd show him this. After all the speculation, theories, everything... He was right all along. 2 G C G C 10 months ago You can feel his passion for his work. David Veano David Veano 2 years ago Crazy How Unifying & Using TeleScopes Across The Globe Helps Us Achieve Such An Amazing Feat . . . Just Goes To Show How Powerful We Are All Together . SteveoMagician SteveoMagician 6 months ago I used to be scared up until the age of 32. Had a near death experience and while in hospital I decided I was going to chase the things that scared me. I had no idea I was going to fall in love with science. Name: User Generic Name: User Generic 1 year ago I would love to hear this guy lecture. Just riffing he's like the square root of 27 + change. Awesome. 17 7 7 7 7 2 years ago Imagine people thousands of years later watching this and laughing about how primitive we were. But listen up future people, you weren’t be able to become what you are without the help of us ! 2 newforestobservatory newforestobservatory 11 months ago This is by far the best TED I've ever seen - and I've seen A LOT. kittycasino29 kittycasino29 1 year ago It's hard to fathom how far 55 mil light years is and how we can see that far. It's so big in space!! Andrew Yachovitz Andrew Yachovitz 1 year ago I still find this trippin that we got a pic of this and it’s hard for me to wrap it around my head. I can’t wait to see what we can do 5 years from now 13 Mathew Ferstl Mathew Ferstl 2 years ago damn imagine if Einstein and hawking had seen this 503 Felix M. Felix M. 2 years ago Great video, vary informative and a beautiful ending too 💫 4 Iwon Again Iwon Again 2 years ago It's amazing how Einstein knew a lot of this stuff without the technology 1 Beleth Beleth 2 years ago With that super telescope, I wonder how planets would look from earth. 56 Jim M Jim M 3 years ago This was a fascinating accomplishment. Seems to me to be a very convenient interface between the extremely large and the extremely small spectrum of matter in the universe. Jason Gooden Jason Gooden 2 years ago i would love to know how they measured something 55 million light years away from something as small as Earth 25 Out Brake Out Brake 1 year ago The great Mathematician ever-Ramanujan has done brilliant work in understanding the very quantum structure of spacetime – in particular the quantum entropy of a type of Black Hole in string theory. The Black Hole Physics. People should try to explore that 1 Legen_ OfAimbot Legen_ OfAimbot 2 years ago (edited) Bruh I am legit amazed we have such technology that we can see from our tiny blue circle out to the infinite peach of darkness and were able to find something that until today that was thought to be impossible. Amelia Warfield Amelia Warfield 11 months ago Awesome lecture. Stephen Hawking would be proud if he had lived to see this video.🕳️ 2 Axel Ave Axel Ave 1 year ago It's amazing how Einstein made theories about all this with simple logics so to speak... 8 Mr, Boo Boo 1972 Mr, Boo Boo 1972 3 years ago ATTENTION TED TALKS. 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People like this are truly amazing with their knowledge and research. Makes me feel like I’ve wasted my life. 1 Adrian Booth Adrian Booth 7 months ago "3 days to a month sounds like a long time to orbit an event horizon" "well the event horizon is bigger than our solar system" If we assume the solar system stops at the outermost orbit of Neptune, it gives us a circumference of ~28 billion km, so the orbit is at least ~1 billion km/day or ~48 million km/hr or ~4% of the speed of light! Marty Jackofson Marty Jackofson 2 years ago It really does make sense that a black hole punctures into another string of reality 12 Chardi Chardi 10 months ago Could a technique like this be used to have a photo of planets outisde our solar system? Matt Matt 1 year ago I watched this for a second time and understood it a lot more clearly, woah that image is a remarkable and beautiful thing. 5 Erlend Dalheim Erlend Dalheim 6 months ago I didn't think syncronising clocks in different locations perfectly was possible? If that's possible it would also be possible to measure speed of light in 1 direction Chris Davis Chris Davis 4 months ago This is the technique they should use to listen for sounds from space. If the light coming from that far away is to large for us to see it then maybe the sounds are too big for us to hear them. Not sound in the traditional sense as it wouldn't pass through space but signals and wavelengths of sounds. If every solitary device listening for these signals was synchronized atomically and played back overtop another at the same signal rate maybe there would be some audible detection of signals being cast out from space in our direction. Well maybe not but really fun to think about! 2 Bband Bband 2 years ago Einstein predicted that image more than a century ago. Besides the obvious greatness of his mind, that also tells us something about the possibilities of thought over visual observation. Rudy Rangel Rudy Rangel 2 years ago He helped me understand that on a whole other level! 7 Max Murphy Max Murphy 5 months ago At the end of the day Common sense and logic was and still the beacon of knowledge, that's what makes best astrophysicists, mathematicians and scientists. 1 yash sharma yash sharma 3 years ago i feel proud to be a witness of this mega moment 111 LTDEdition Games LTDEdition Games 2 years ago It is truly remarkable that this occurred in my lifetime The Chad Pad The Chad Pad 2 years ago That image still gives me chills 4 Bushe Bajiti Bushe Bajiti 2 years ago The sheer vastness of the universe alone baffles me to this very day KoKo FitFaded KoKo FitFaded 3 years ago Wow... simply amazing. I’m having a hard time putting words on my thoughts right now, so I’ll leave it at, WOW... simply amazing. 180.014 Akash Gupta 180.014 Akash Gupta 6 months ago I was expecting an explanation on how do they segregate such accurate data from all the noises from the universe. 1more-note 1more-note 1 year ago most amazing thing Ive ever seen,there is one funny comment he makes when he says " and that's it:" and i immediately chuckled along, and then it hit me, its actually not it, it is a small keyhole glimpse into the binary existent universe that exists beyond our own physical one, the dark matter universe, and how massive must it be, we are only seeing a needle eye glimpse of this whole other existent universe a dark matter universe perhaps. Michael Sterling Michael Sterling 1 year ago Try doing the math on how far that actually is......55 million light years * how far light travels in a year.....that's beyond insane. The universe is so gigantic 1 Ganesh Chidambaram Ganesh Chidambaram 3 years ago the man and as well his team is greatly polite and not showing off about their achievement!!!! respect bruwww 22 cliff cliff 2 years ago They just went on, but I kept wondering: our whole Solar System could fit into that black hole. I mean we need months to years to reach other planets in our Solar System. Falling into that black hole would be a long fall indeed. mrplease66 mrplease66 3 years ago love the fact that they don't say where and by whom this was done. Science is bigger than nations and egos. Johnny's_account Johnny's_account 2 years ago I wish that TED would make a video about wether a Black Hole can consume a Planet or not... I wanna know if a black hole can consume a sun or a planet like earth... souffléホワイト souffléホワイト 7 months ago Put aside their differences to aim for a single goal. For a layman like me, that's even more beautiful than the picture itself. prithwish roy prithwish roy 1 year ago Sir I have a question 'When two magnets are brought near each other, like poles repel; opposite poles attract. It means all object's has an opposite relation with the planet earth and if so then same side will oppose it and it will be called antigravity or may be gravity will not work. If anything ever invented in near future later, then possibly humans can go into Black hole Just for example I am saying this When a magnet is brought near a piece of iron, the iron also gets attracted to the magnet, and it acquires the same ability to attract other pieces of iron. 1 Danger_Noodle1776 Danger_Noodle1776 1 year ago "Where do you end up if you fall into a black hole?" "Vancouver." Actually hilarious 231 Skytivity Skytivity 2 years ago Interstellar (the movie) made a pretty realistic black hole and it's honestly so beautiful. GentlemanBystander GentlemanBystander 2 years ago (edited) Any comment on why you had to discard 99.999999999% of the data to get the image you wanted, how you managed to turn non-visible radio/EM telemetry into a "picture", and why at any given point ~40% of your observatories were NOT reporting data yet you included data from their non-reporting periods? abbas Noufal abbas Noufal 2 years ago im very stupid when it comes to these subjects b