I have an idea for a new thread...

[MTBeer]

This is pretty exciting I think. Love all the space stuff. Just wish I was intelligent enough to really understand it.

 

https://www.news24.com/Green/News/scientists-set-to-reveal-first-true-image-of-black-hole-20190410

[MTBeer]

Lower cableway 1964

 

love those old pics of CT. there is a website I found once with hundreds of them.

[Lotus]

Busted [emoji23] https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2026096087517607&id=742932902500605

I still recall looking at pedestrians(!) while driving, and hearing a cold voice in the car asking "Is she nice?..."

[forkie]

I still recall looking at pedestrians(!) while driving, and hearing a cold voice in the car asking "Is she nice?..."

driving with the family a few years back and after a few good looks  and comments ,my duaghter says:" Dad! you are worse than Johnny Bravo!" My wife just laughed. she is so used to me.

[Hairy]

https://youtu.be/WdhQ5mM_Giw

[Shebeen]

love those old pics of CT. there is a website I found once with hundreds of them.

go knock yourself out!

Lion's Head 1961

 

[Shebeen]

[The Ouzo]

https://youtu.be/WdhQ5mM_Giw

[Piston ZA]

This is pretty exciting I think. Love all the space stuff. Just wish I was intelligent enough to really understand it.

 

https://www.news24.com/Green/News/scientists-set-to-reveal-first-true-image-of-black-hole-20190410

Here it is...

 

 

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/black-hole-image-makes-history

 

A black hole and its shadow have been captured in an image for the first time, a historic feat by an international network of radio telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).

A black hole is an extremely dense object from which no light can escape. Anything that comes within a black hole’s “event horizon,” its point of no return, will be consumed, never to re-emerge, because of the black hole’s unimaginably strong gravity. By its very nature, a black hole cannot be seen, but the hot disk of material that encircles it shines bright. Against a bright backdrop, such as this disk, a black hole appears to cast a shadow.  

The stunning new image shows the shadow of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 (M87), an elliptical galaxy some 55 million light-years from Earth. This black hole is 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun. Catching its shadow involved eight ground-based radio telescopes around the globe, operating together as if they were one telescope the size of our entire planet. 

[Robbie Stewart]

https://youtu.be/WdhQ5mM_Giw

 

I just had a good laugh at this. Thanks Hairy.

[Hairy]

some of those are rather scary!

 

I just had a good laugh at this. Thanks Hairy.

[Fruity]

[Piston ZA]

Just a little more on the black hole photo, I don't think enough people realise the significance of the image, and how difficult it is to photograph.

 

Here is a TED Talk from over a year ago by Dr Katie Bouman, one of the members of the team, who created the algorithm making the image possible, explaining it in more detail. It's truly fascinating stuff

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIvezCVcsYs

 

 

[MTBeer]

Just a little more on the black hole photo, I don't think enough people realise the significance of the image, and how difficult it is to photograph.

 

Here is a TED Talk from over a year ago by Dr Katie Bouman, one of the members of the team, who created the algorithm making the image possible, explaining it in more detail. It's truly fascinating stuff

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIvezCVcsYs

check the stuff on the blackboard in the background. love it.

[geomark]

[Long Wheel Base]

check the stuff on the blackboard in the background. love it.

Looks like a scene from big bang theory.