ESO event on groundbreaking results from Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
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Beside that and as much fun as speculating about the content of the press conference might be, the announcement of an announcement is unfortunately just that [3].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A -> follow the link to the blackhole from there. The actual article has got a trailing * on its link and that does not properly linkify here.
[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Ah yes - that can seem like a bug in the URL parser, but the problem is that there are other cases where people put asterisks after links that shouldn't* be incorporated into the URL. So ultimately it's an ambiguity. In fact, I vaguely remember going through the corpus of HN comments, the last time I worked on the URL parser, to see which way trailing asterisks should be treated, and it turned out that "don't include them" was the more common case. (Or maybe I just imagined doing that.)
In any case, for such occurrences I believe you can use angle brackets as parser hints and your URL should get linkified correctly:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*>
Edit: yup! This is in https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc, as it happens.
Some more info: https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-are-about-to-make-a...
https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/black-hole-photo-just-i...
And if your argument boils down to "I mean, it’s just not that aesthetically pleasing" (like the article you linked to), I don't know what to tell you.
But if people want better images of astrophysical observations they should express their support for increasing that funding accordingly. Physics needs huge, expensive, long term projects to expand our knowledge. And those projects will lead to this we can’t imagine at the outset and there will be jobs for many along the way. (Jobs for the best and the brightest and don’t boil down to getting people to buy things from advertisements.)
I’d love to see more research into expansion of the periodic table and a telescope that could utilize the suns gravitational lensing to resolve far off objects, to cherry pick a couple.
Correction, April 10, 2019: Due to an editing error, this post originally misstated that the black hole is 6.5 million times the size of the sun. It has 6.5 billion times the mass of the sun.
Correction, April 11, 2019: Due to an editing error, the post also originally misstated that the black hole was 55 million light-years old. It is 55 million light-years away.
Are these not basically the same thing ?
You do realize it's not a photo?
"...We have seen, and taken a picture, of a Black Hole."
Video at the correct time: https://youtu.be/lnJi0Jy692w?t=456
Let's not even talk about how it come up with that color, or the fact that in reality there are four different images, corresponding to the different four teams that worked with the same data, and the project then decided to publish only one, "averaged" from the four. ;-)
The image processing of any digitally taken picture involves so many corrections that these wouldn't pass such a test of "photograph" either. These either happen by choice of the photographer when developing raw images with tools like darktable, Adobe Lightroom, ... because they want to achieve a certain look - or automatically without interaction in your smartphone/DSLR if one is only interested in getting any picture or video out of the other end (remember how iPhones botched the colored sky during the California wildfires because that's something that wasn't foreseen?).
Even chemically developing images taken on photographic film gives freedom with the results.
The raw data will be published eventually.
Thanks for being interested in our data.
I really hope this is not yet another PR announcement that will fade into past quicker then the time it took to announce it.
Thats a reference to multiple 'groundbreaking' discoveries by Nasa ending up always being about water on mars.
https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/event-horizon-telesco...
By the way, it's a global news conference, the ESO is one of many organizations involved.
Agh!
Would be cool.
In probably 2008 I took some extremely potent hydroponic mushrooms. Having grown up with field shrooms I thought I could handle my typical 1/8-1/4 oz dose,despitey cousin advising me one gram would more than suffice.
I had the quickest on set imaginable when ingesting something. Hadn't gotten down more than a few grams when I got smacked over the head. I looked at my tv (playing cartoon network) and went...away.
Hours later I came back to myself and what had happened was hard to explain.
I had risen ip through my head and proceeded until at the edge of what I guessed was the universe. As I felt myself hit a barrier I knew what I had to do. I had to shed my small, human consciousness as it was unable to contain what was out there.
I remember doing that and then coming back. I had this incredible sadness as while out there I felt I had understood. It had all made sense, there was nothing to fear, all the knowledge was out there and for a bit I'd had it.
Coming back to myself I had to remember how to be human- I am a human, I am a male, we communicate with language, etc. And all the while it felt so much like downgrading.
Turns out I had been 'out there' for about 8+ hours. My poor cousin had gotten stuck ib my bathroom mirror and refused to speak kf his trip.
After that I have almost a sense of expectation, as if this is hust something I have to go through to get 'there'.
I hear nowadays much headway is being made in using psychedelics for therapy, maybe it would be something worth looking into, if you're into that sort of thing.
I feel you on the anxiety, and whatever it may be, I hope you are able to not just cope but move past it. I know I still struggle occasionally, almost had a panic attack just yesterday and it had been over a year since I'd had one.