Re:Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the h...
by jankovicsandras on Friday May 13, 2022 @02:46AM
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I agree that in science, as we extend our perception with instruments, it's difficult draw the line between an image and an illustration or diagram.
I'm maybe grumpy because this relatively featureless image of relatively massaged data is presented by mainstream news as "FANTASTIC new photo of a Black Hole! WOW! It looks just like in Interstellar!"
Ofcourse each wavelength of light works a bit differently, like with the X-ray example, you need to understand how X-ray works to understand what you are looking at.
A model or illustration is something that would be product of our calculation or imagination, that was given visual form.