We're living in the prequel to Interstellar right now... Here's Gargantua
https://news.yahoo.com/earthlings-get-first-glimpse-of-a-black-hole-151826129.html
I saw that; very cool. Scientific discoveries are getting ignored on the daily because politics has gotten so suffocating.
shareYep
And the article and video directly following that was about Magic Johnson retiring from The Lakers organization, which I think is a weird follow-up🤪
we have eight continents now. Zealandia.
shareBut it's not a scientific discovery. It's a theoretical rendition of a theoretical object. It's like when ancient Greeks used to draw pictures of Zeus or something. "Very cool".
shareI think it's freaking cool.
shareis that just from the gravitational lense effect? Because otherwise light is supposed to not be able to to escape from a black hole.
shareIt's like imaging the radar signals coming off the accretion disk, or something like that... the image is not made from light IIRC.
shareWe don't actually see the blackhole because, as you said, it's basically pitch black. That's why there's a solid black circle in the center of the photo. The blackhole itself is another smaller black thing at the center of the black circle, which nobody can see.
Anyway, it's technically the photos of event horizons. The project itself is called The Event Horizon Telescope.
And this is for all the misogynist trolls on MC who constantly claim sexism is exaggerated or imaginary or doesn't exist:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/black-hole-katie-bouman-andrew-chael-sexist-trolls-154005558.html
"Black Hole Scientist Defends Female Colleague Against Sexist Trolls"
Fucking SAD.
You can look on github right now and see exactly what Katie Bouman contributed to the project. She contributed an option to change the font size of the captions. Are you kidding me? The media is trying to give her sole credit. She herself went through back channels to release information to them ahead of her team, and all the time referring to it as her discovery rather than her team's discovery. She's a fraud. The people who did the actual work are defending her because they don't want to be fired, for sexism.
shareGithub is not perfect and even on this they have simple things wrong.
First off:
"Chael set the record straight, explaining that Bouman, an assistant professor at Caltech, helped develop the algorithm while a postdoctoral fellow at MIT."
Secondly:
"Chael debunked the claim that he wrote “850,000 lines of code,” explaining that “many of those ‘lines’” are taken from existing “model files.”
“There are about 68,000 lines in the current software,
I'll take this computer scientist at his word, and sexist trolls suck ass. They're just insecure little boys afraid of vaginas.
I'm no alpha male, but guys like that make me feel like a testosterone-fueled Don Juan.
There sure has been a lot of news about the Black Hole on radio and television. Where do black holes come from anyway?
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