Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day
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The first simulated image of a black hole, calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.
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- it's kinda sad it took nearly 40 years for cinema (/general media) to use this form of representation. Would've helped communicate how weird they are.Nairn
- Would be amusing if that projection there also somehow accounts for 'dark matter' intra-galactic cohesion. Seems like the emergence of almost the right shapeNairn
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