Originally posted by deevee
Since black holes are still theoreticall, I would suspect that tangible proof in the form of a photograph would be BIG news and posted on ATS post haste by someone with the bona fides to authenticate them.

Well, black holes are not theoretical are they? They do exist. However, it is simply impossible to see them, or in any way to photograph them, because in a word, a black hole is a huge quantity of matter, crushed to a very small size (relatively...), and therefore their gravity is that big that even light photons can't escape them. Therefore, as no light at all is being emitted, they can't be photographed. The proof of the existence of a black hole can be made through the various consequences it has on its environment.

There is a good chance that the location of THAT black-hole is fairly correct..
The latest running theory is that Galaxies contain SUPERMASSIVE black holes
at their center....

Whether the Galaxy is the result of the black hole, or vice-versa, I think thats still up for grabs.

Is it possible this image was created to illustrate the IDEA of Supermassive Black holes at the center of galaxies..Maybe an article in an astronomy magazine or something?

BTW, that is ONE beautiful image of Andromeda!! (the normal looking one)

It's fake and we all know it. We're just waiting for the apology, and whether it was a scam just so you could bag some points or just fake people out.

And black holes would be an infinitly small speck that is infinitely dense, not that huge black circle in the center.

that is such a horrible photoshop job
I hope that peter999 apologizes for posting that, even someone that is not very familiar with photoshop (such as myself) can tell that's fake
and how did he get ~900 pts if he registered today?!

*edit: unless the point system was changed, he should only have 665 points because this topic was his first post (space exploration: reply = 25pts post = 15pts) not that the points are that important or, for that matter, relevant in the discussion of this photo

[edit on 19-10-2004 by UnknownOrigins]

That is the worst photo shop job ever!Who made it?

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Lemme tell ya something man...if a black hole was that large, that close, we would have been wiped off the face of the Earth because of the high energy gamma waves that thing would be sending out. Our DNA would be cooked to goo, not able to form even a single protien right.

sry people everyone knows that a black hole sucks up light, so there is no known way to take its "pic"...

am i correct???

It seems silly to think that this is a picture of a black hole. A Black hole sucks in all light, and a photograph is taken using lightwaves, therefore, I would seriously doubt if a picture of a black hole is even possible.

Not to insult, simply to inform!

yes you cant photo a black hole because light cannot excape it but once you see the dot you know its a fake because a blackhole picture taken from an angle would form an oval not an even circle

Light can’t escape a black hole but you can identify one from the event horizon. If there is light behind the black hole from a distant galaxy or star the event horizon will bend that light enabling you to surmise that a black hole resides in that location.

Originally posted by kinglizard
Light can’t escape a black hole but you can identify one from the event horizon. If there is light behind the black hole from a distant galaxy or star the event horizon will bend that light enabling you to surmise that a black hole resides in that location.

sort of like shining a laser pointer through a bottle of water, right?
just trying to get a grasp of what a *real* black hole would look like

yepp...

we wouldn't see the black hole but we would see stuff getting sucked in it...