thefilmbook - edited by Benjamin B » event horizon shadow https://thefilmbook.net Cinema art & technology edited by Benjamin B - version 3 Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:38:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 – Black Hole Image Slides, Video https://thefilmbook.net/2022/04/black-hole-image-slide-show/ https://thefilmbook.net/2022/04/black-hole-image-slide-show/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:29:17 +0000 https://thefilmbook.net/?p=3463 [...]]]> A gallery of images of the historic project to create the first image of a black hole, or more precisely, of the shadow created by the sphere of a black hole’s horizon.
The gigantic black hole in galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is the size of our solar system. The M87 black hole is actively creating a lengthy jet and emitting a radio wave signal that we are detecting some 55 million light years away.
In order to image this huge distant object, scientists created a virtual earth-sized telescope by combining signals from an array of 7 telescopes across the glove, and using the Earth’s rotation to scan the black hole.
5 PetaBytes of data was collected and processed to create the historic final 4K image: a fuzzy smile from a massive invisible black hole 55 million light years away.
0 First image of shadow of black hole event horizon sphere - 2019 1 Radio Wave Jet Source created by Black Hole 2 Massive black hole is located in Messier 87 galaxy in Virgo 3 Creating Earth-sized virtual telescope by correlating different telescope recordings of radio waves 4 Seven telescope array across the planet used to create Earth-sized virtual telescope 5 Array of telescopes scan the image of black hole 6 Workflow of creating 4k image from 5 PetaBytes of data 7 American-European-Asian collaboration on creating black hole image 8 Black hole gravity lens profile view 9 Black hole gravity lens frontal view 10 First image of shadow of black hole event horizon sphere
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Watch on YouTube: bit.ly/BlackHoleImagePressConference
video of very informative NSF press conference

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