Are you serious with the “needs more explanation”? Jump to: navigation, search. The EHT team have captured an image of a 'monster' black hole, which sits around 54 million light years away from Earth, in a different galaxy called Messier 87. At the end of the day, if it's being served to your browser, there's almost always a way to get to it. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole,” Sheperd Doeleman, EHT Director and astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., said April 10 in Washington, D.C., at one of seven concurrent news conferences. For a large black hole, that would start with very low energy (long wavelength) photons. Cueball describes the system as being like Pinterest, where JavaScript prevents you from right-clicking on an image so that you could save it (or at least attempts to, there are many workarounds). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. wot? The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) -- a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration -- was designed to capture images of a black hole. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Content under DRM may also prevent screenshots, and attempting to screenshot a protected video will result in a black image. More details. The post XKCD, EHT Black Hole Picture appeared first on Security Boulevard. As a last act of desperation, Cueball took out his phone and attempted to take a photo of the screen showing the black hole, but by that time, the observation had ended, and the photo was lost. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Randall predicts this trend will continue, and makes a joke by analogy to real-world difficult experiences capturing important moments. But imagine there's a cool-looking twisted accretion disc just outside this black square! Advertise on IT Security News.Read the complete article: XKCD, EHT Black Hole Picture via the comic delivery system monikered Randall Munroe at XKCD! Jump to: navigation, search |< < Prev; Comic #2133 (April 5, 2019) Next > >| EHT Black Hole Picture: Title text: [five years later] Ok, it seems we were accidentally zoomed in slightly too far. He may be standing /on/ a podium, but he is standing /behind/ a lectern. This comic references the Event Horizon Telescope, an international project dedicated to imaging black holes Sagittarius A* and M87* with angular resolution comparable in size to their event horizons. This is the list of comics from 2001 to 2389.. For the first 500 comics, see List of all comics (1-500). |<