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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by losteric on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:20PM (#19628911)
Nope, for the same reason we had photos of the Moon before we had photos of Earth.
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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by nazgul17 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:26PM (#19628955)
Can you expand on this?
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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by CydeWeys on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @06:05PM (#19629234)
What they're saying is that we had to send a camera away from the Earth (in a rocket) in order to photograph it properly, and similarly you'd need to send a camera away from our galaxy (in a biiiig rocket) in order to be able to photograph it properly.
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