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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by hashfunktion on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:46PM (#19630099)
Pardon my naïveté, I never took advance physics, but if light can't escape from a blackhole, then how can we "take a picture" of one?
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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by ValleyOfTheMtns on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:36PM (#19630383)
It's a photo of the absence of light (in the middle) and light/particles swirling around the black hole that haven't passed the event horizon (yet).
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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by ceejayoz on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:03PM (#19630203)
Same way we can take a picture of a shadow - by taking a picture of the stuff surrounding it. This black hole is surrounded by a bright accretion disk.
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