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0 pointsmanigandham6y ago0 comments

Did you see the movie Interstellar? He included it in his video. That's what the black hole looks like, except with the relativistic beaming make one side brighter than the other.

Here's the image from the movie: https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ut_interste...

Now imagine that image being taken far away by several ground-based telescopes put together at the edge of their capabilities and using math to error correct and stitch together the final result. What you get is what we saw.

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wallace_f6y ago

Ah, sure. Also, if you go to the EHT's own website, they have a gallery of predicted, simulated images.

Here is another prediction: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/here-s-what-scientis...

I just wanted to know why he went with that one because his prediction was really accurate. And I thought him saying 'just trust me' was bad form.

He did talk some about this, but he didn't really say anything about why he thought his illustration would be so accurate compared to a lot of other stuff seen in the press.

I dont care (or have any idea why) how many downvotes or insults I get. It is a perfectly reasonable question and criticism.

manigandhamOP6y ago

I don't see the difference, the predictions are the same.

The only changes in the image depend on what angle the black hole is being viewed at which would influence whether we see a band across the middle and the slimmer inner ring.

wallace_f6y ago

Lol the image I linked is obviously very different.

There is some groupthink going on here affecting people like you and others. The above is obviously plain.

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0 pointsmanigandham6y ago0 comments

Did you see the movie Interstellar? He included it in his video. That's what the black hole looks like, except with the relativistic beaming make one side brighter than the other.

Here's the image from the movie: https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ut_interste...

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wallace_f6y ago

Ah, sure. Also, if you go to the EHT's own website, they have a gallery of predicted, simulated images.

Here is another prediction: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/here-s-what-scientis...

I just wanted to know why he went with that one because his prediction was really accurate. And I thought him saying 'just trust me' was bad form.

He did talk some about this, but he didn't really say anything about why he thought his illustration would be so accurate compared to a lot of other stuff seen in the press.

I dont care (or have any idea why) how many downvotes or insults I get. It is a perfectly reasonable question and criticism.

manigandhamOP6y ago

I don't see the difference, the predictions are the same.

The only changes in the image depend on what angle the black hole is being viewed at which would influence whether we see a band across the middle and the slimmer inner ring.

wallace_f6y ago

Lol the image I linked is obviously very different.

There is some groupthink going on here affecting people like you and others. The above is obviously plain.

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