First Image of a Black Hole

[bgprest]

So... massive black hole at the center of our galaxy... the Milky Way slowly spinning down the drain?...

 

[HGoat1]

How many beers?

 

[iahawks]

So can someone explain why the event horizon is a disk in a single plane and not a fiery ball surrounding the entire black hole? I don't understand how a singularity point of gravity like a black hole can have an orbital plane like drain instead of pulling in from all angles?

FYI I did watch the video above and it helps but doesn't seem to explain the orbital plane

Because we live on a flat earth and this is all a big conspiracy.

 

[Rabbuk]

I saw Percy Gibson play years ago

Just coming to make this joke. Well done.

 

[Entropy]

Katie Bouman, who helped design the software and led the group, gave a TED talk about the process a few years back.

 

[MeanDean]

Was fully expecting to see this when I opened the thread:

I'm not that familiar with Astronomy, but wouldn't it be round, not square?

 

[CloneGuy8]

I've often fantasized about what it would feel like to enter a black hole

 

[isucyfan]

I've often fantasized about what it would feel like to enter a black hole

It would not be pleasant. You would be "spaghettified" (actual astronomical term). Basically stretched, bifurcated, stretched, bifurcated, until you were just a unorganized collection of molecules.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

It would not be pleasant. You would be "spaghettified" (actual astronomical term). Basically stretched, bifurcated, stretched, bifurcated, until you were just a unorganized collection of molecules.

Sounds like a pretty standard Saturday night in my younger days

 

[CloneGuy8]

It would not be pleasant. You would be "spaghettified" (actual astronomical term). Basically stretched, bifurcated, stretched, bifurcated, until you were just a unorganized collection of molecules.

Sounds kinky

 

[Cyched]

So... massive black hole at the center of our galaxy... the Milky Way slowly spinning down the drain?...

Time to stock up on beer and whiskey

 

[deadeyededric]

So... massive black hole at the center of our galaxy... the Milky Way slowly spinning down the drain?...

I was always under the impression a black hole was somewhere around Uranus.

 

[deadeyededric]

I've often fantasized about what it would feel like to enter a black hole

Like warm apple pie?

 

[Acylum]

It would not be pleasant. You would be "spaghettified" (actual astronomical term). Basically stretched, bifurcated, stretched, bifurcated, until you were just a unorganized collection of molecules.

I'm pretty much an unorganized collection of molecules already.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

If anyone has the Science Channel, they are getting ready to have an hour long show about the discovery.

 

[NWICY]

So how long before we all die?

 

[jdoggivjc]

This has a very good explanation of what we are seeing. This guy predicted what the picture would show even before it was released.

 

[jdoggivjc]

It would not be pleasant. You would be "spaghettified" (actual astronomical term). Basically stretched, bifurcated, stretched, bifurcated, until you were just a unorganized collection of molecules.

At 1 million degrees you'd probably be incinerated long before any of that stuff happened.

 

[Cyder91]

I expected to see a list of threads on CF that fanatics have been sucked into.

 

[ISU_Clone_28]

Thread is going about the way I was hoping for when I opened it. It has not disappointed. Pretty crazy to see though.