black holes suck...

carl669 posted a pic said Tue, Apr 9th 2019 at 11:08pm ET

is anyone else more excited than they should be about the revealing of the first ever photo of a black hole tomorrow?

no? just me? then carry on. fuck you. nothing to see here.

live stream of the announcement here:

/giphy giggity

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tinamarie1974 said Tue, Apr 9th 2019 at 11:16pm ET:

Well I wasn’t until now…I had no idea it was happening!!! What time is the announcement

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  Results of the 2017 observations will be announced at 9AM ET on Wednesday, April 10th.
  
  If you want to watch the announcement as it happens, you can tune in to one of several live streams around the globe, including ones hosted by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the European Commission, and the National Science Foundation.
  
  mike808 said Tue, Apr 9th 2019 at 11:37pm ET
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- @mike808 thank you!!!
  
  tinamarie1974 said Tue, Apr 9th 2019 at 11:41pm ET
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mike808 said Tue, Apr 9th 2019 at 11:26pm ET:

Here is a pretty good layman’s explanation of what the EHT experiment is about over at The Verge.
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/4/9/18301276/event-horizon-telescope-supermassive-black-holes-images

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mike808 said Tue, Apr 9th 2019 at 11:33pm ET:

And here is a really understandable video explanation of what the scientists are expecting to see.

Summary: a smudgy coffee cup stain ring.
Pay attention to those Schwartzchild radii. If we can calculate the diameter of that shadow, we can calculate the diameter of the black hole, and thus, an accurate mass. Compare with the mass/orbits of observed stars around SgrA* and check the theory against observed facts. Boom! Science!

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  shahnm said Wed, Apr 10th 2019 at 12:43am ET
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  imgur.com/v30qQpw
  
  carl669 said Wed, Apr 10th 2019 at 12:51am ET
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unksol said Wed, Apr 10th 2019 at 1:27am ET:

Don’t get to excited…

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mike808 said Wed, Apr 10th 2019 at 9:27am ET:

And here it is.

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- @mike808 TV anchor said it looked like a Krispy Keene donut…it kinda does!
  
  llangley said Wed, Apr 10th 2019 at 9:37am ET
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- @llangley @mike808 More like the Eye of Sauron from LOTR.
  
  macromeh said Wed, Apr 10th 2019 at 10:36am ET
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  Ah. As I thought.
  
  /giphy selfie!
  
  f00l said Wed, Apr 10th 2019 at 10:38am ET
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- @mike808 about what i expected, but still overly excited about it.
  
  carl669 said Wed, Apr 10th 2019 at 12:41pm ET
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llangley said Wed, Apr 10th 2019 at 9:36am ET:

Black holes don’t suck as much as the fucking new Meh homie page does now

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jsh139 said Wed, Apr 10th 2019 at 11:18am ET:

Not as exciting as I had hoped.

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shahnm said Wed, Apr 10th 2019 at 1:37pm ET:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/45806/see-it-first-image-black-hole-james-barrett

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