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Re:Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the h... by panda-giddiness on Friday May 13, 2022 @09:52AM (#31367610)
Absolutely, but those retractions are led by other astronomers/astrophysicists, not lay people presenting straw men.

I think people's priors here are out of whack -- perhaps the truth does lie somewhere in the middle, but if so, it will be much closer to ETH's version than the OP's.

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Re:Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the h... by belter on Friday May 13, 2022 @11:07AM (#31368627)
Astronomers/astrophysicists started first, by misrepresenting the process and bringing the talk of taking photos and having "visual evidence".

"...We have seen, and taken a picture, of a Black Hole."

https://youtu.be/lnJi0Jy692w?t=456

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Re:Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the h... by wumpus on Friday May 13, 2022 @03:24PM (#31371606)
Yes? He’s correct.
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Re:Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the h... by belter on Friday May 13, 2022 @04:09PM (#31372040)
There we go again...If you had a photo you not would need to make the merge of the four different images achieved by the four different teams.

Now the you have published the data from 2017, If I publish my own "photo", and I chose blue with spots of white, using the same library you used and the same color maps:

https://github.com/liamedeiros/ehtplot/blob/docs/docs/COLORM...

Why yours will be more a picture than mine in blue? Maybe I will even splint a little bit of red in there...

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Re:Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the h... by wumpus on Friday May 13, 2022 @04:21PM (#31372137)
I’m looking forward to reading your scientific paper.
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Re:Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the h... by belter on Friday May 13, 2022 @05:47PM (#31372863)
And I am looking forward to have many other different teams reproduce your results independently.

I also would like to notice you did not explain why my blue "picture" would be less a "picture" than yours.

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Re:Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the h... by wumpus on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:56PM (#31512479)
Enjoy:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220510267P/abstra...

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Re:Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the h... by aortega on Saturday May 14, 2022 @06:20AM (#31376530)
A picture of a black hole would be always artificial, for color don't really exist as it's only the brain interpretation of a part of the EM spectrum heavily averaged, that's why we don't see green stars even if there are many stars whose strongest light is green, like our own sun.

Taking a real picture of a black hole like with a cellphone camera would likely be just like a bright white star.

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