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- Nairn0
Journey to the centre of the galaxy..
"A new immersive, 360-degree, ultra-high-definition visualization allows viewers to view the center of our Galaxy as if they were sitting in the position of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole (Sgr A*). By combining supercomputer simulations with Chandra data, the visualization shows the effects of dozens of massive stellar giants with fierce winds blowing off their surfaces in the region covering a few light years surrounding Sgr A*. Blue and cyan represent X-ray emission from hot gas with temperatures of tens of millions of degrees, while the red emission shows ultraviolet emission from moderately dense regions of cooler gas with temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees, and yellow shows the cooler gas with the highest densities."
- lemmy_k0
Some of it is hard to hear, but worth the watch. I didn't know the Space X history until now.
- uan1
first image of a black hole press conference in 20mins...
- ok_not_ok12
- "They finally managed to take a pic of your mom's anus"Nairn
- out of focusuan
- Original is 185MB https://www.eso.org/…
Why?drgs - seriously science, learn to focusGnash
- yeah, how hard is it to focus on something 100,000 light years away, ffs?monospaced
- That's what happens when you open up the aperture too much, kids.Continuity
- There are sooo many bad jokes I can think of right now...SimonFFM
- Let down. Looks like most black hole artist renderings ive seen lolCygnusZero4
- It is a render from data, not a photo capturing visible light... right?robthelad
- guys... http://www.canon.ca/…aliastime
- ^ SimonFFM, I'm sure you've seen your share of these over the years?
; )ideaist - Is this from the penis cam someone posted?BH26
- https://i.imgur.com/…BH26
- at the other end of it doctors are waiting.. .lol all the.comments.sted
- M87 is 55 million light-years from Earthutopian
- been there.neverscared
- So M87 isn't just a crappy band?futurefood
- https://techcrunch.c…imbecile
- Soundgarden Supernkown cover.stoplying
- its just a blob, could be anything. The Earph is flat anyway!!!!1Bennn
- So, the gravity of the discovery here is that black holes are not black?Krassy
- Well, their event horizons and accretion discs certainly aren't.Continuity
- This article talks about the accretion disc having a color/intensity shift due to the direction of spin... could that be the asymmetry we see?monNom
- ^ https://io9.gizmodo.…monNom
- LOL.. my entire Facebook has been nothing but this all morning.. but it took until qbn that the first “your mom” comment .. never change QBNautoflavour
- HHhhm space donut_niko
- Seems almost non news worthy... i feel like its a prelude to chinas 70'th communism bash. A US PR releasedeathboy
- china has been pushing the space lately, chinas the wandering earth reminds me of shit i read early in the space race with politicsdeathboy
- personally i prefer more theory than photos of relevance to blackholes in our concepts of reality and time and matter.deathboy
- It's a hole in the dome.robthelad
- It's an incredible nothing. Carry on with your praises...robotron3k
- it's practically the opposite of nothing robo. it's so massive that not even light can escape its gravity. pull your head out of your own black hole anussarahfailin
- But then again a singularity is 'physically impossible' and everything beyond the event horizon is taken from our universe, so he's also sort of right.Nairn
- Nairn1
Tonight is the second launch of the Falcon Heavy (its first commercial launch) and tomorrow, all being well, Israel will become the fourth country to [soft] land something on the moon.
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-…
Fun times in Spaaaace!
- Nairn2
So we all know that the movie Interstellar had a 'true' rendering of a Black Hole, and I recall a lot of editorial implying it was the first time it'd been done. Clearly they meant 'in a movie', rather than generally.
It turns out that how a Black Hole should look (visually, upclose - not with radio, from afar as today) was actually modelled way back in 1978 - https://blogs.futura-sciences.co…
The one in Interstellar should've looked a lot more bezerk than it ended up being, with extreme doppler shifting making the result lop-sided and torn
- Well, I guess none of these actually show a black hole, rather .. https://consequenceo…Nairn
- fascinating!monospaced
- Oops, that nature link again: http://blogs.nature.…Nairn
- fadein113
40 billion km across and 500 million trillion km away.
- sted0
- lemmy_k1
Way to go, SpaceX. All three boosters landed.
- NBQ00-1
- oh fuck off with this negative shit.Nairn
- Kill the messengerNBQ00
- Also what's so negative? He's just saying all the hype isn't fair to her and not fair to the team who worked on it.NBQ00
- Messenger? Regurgitator of crap YouTubery. As for your bleating, she's made a lot of noise about sharing credit, so your whinge about hype isNairn
- the same tired old shit about misplaced media focus. So what? It's age old news. Instead you're just spouting negative crap not in the spirit of this threadNairn
- spouting negative crap? Seems you're very thin skinned.NBQ00
- Is yours a personal attack? No, so how on Earth can my reaction be thin-skinned? Is your video here a positive post? No, so..?Nairn
- PonyBoy3
Stratolaunch: 'World's largest plane' lifts off for the first time
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-u…
"Built by Stratolaunch, the company set up by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2011, the aircraft is designed to act as a flying launch pad for satellites.
According to their website, Stratolaunch aims to 'make access to orbit as routine as catching a commercial airline flight is today.'"