Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]

Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by Aardwolf on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:38AM (#19625099)

So we got an image of one in a far away galaxy before the one in the center of our own galaxy!

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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by kiliantics on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:55AM (#19625294)

Event horizon telescope has been taking data of the Sag A* black hole but the data is still being processed and yet to be released.

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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by freejak on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:54AM (#19625284)

Is this due to occlusion?

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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by petschge on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @11:05AM (#19625394)

A lot of the problems with imaging the black hole at the center of the milkway is that we would have to look along the midplane of the galaxy towards the center. That is where a lot of gas and dust is to be found and the radio waves interact with that stuff. They did take data and are working on it, but the image of M87* was easier to reconstruct and went out first.

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