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DeepVisions
Any idea how they will take a picture of something which no light escapes from?
"The technology is now advanced enough that we can actually image black holes and check if they truly exist as predicted: If there is no event horizon, there are no black holes," Falcke added.
BlackHoleCam will use a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) to study the Milky Way's central black hole, which is about 4 million times more massive than the sun. In VLBI, multiple radiotelescopes around the world focus on an object, and a supercomputer then synthesizes and integrates their various observations. This method can, in effect, create a virtual telescope the size of the entire Earth.
DeepVisions
Any idea how they will take a picture of something which no light escapes from?
toocoolnc
Sorry.. Couldnt help itedit on 18-12-2013 by toocoolnc because: (no reason given)
DeepVisions
Any idea how they will take a picture of something which no light escapes from?
the media gets a lot of science headlines wrong?i think you,ll find the science community get a lot of things wrong.
JadeStar
DeepVisions
Any idea how they will take a picture of something which no light escapes from?
Because a black hole that is eating superheats material falling into it. That's how we know they exist at all.
And contrary to the media headline (seriously the media gets a lot of science headlines way wrong these days) we already have pictures of black holes.
What we do not have is a picture of the supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy.
hoss53
Why do I want to see a black hole?
To give 19 million to view something we all know exist seems ridiculous to me.
Lets get our priorities in order, give 19 million to find a cure for juvenile diabetes or cancer.
JadeStar
What we do not have is a picture of the supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy.
hoss53
Why do I want to see a black hole?
To give 19 million to view something we all know exist seems ridiculous to me.
Lets get our priorities in order, give 19 million to find a cure for juvenile diabetes or cancer.
hoss53
Lets get our priorities in order, give 19 million to find a cure for juvenile diabetes or cancer.
sparky31
the media gets a lot of science headlines wrong?i think you,ll find the science community get a lot of things wrong.
JadeStar
DeepVisions
Any idea how they will take a picture of something which no light escapes from?
Because a black hole that is eating superheats material falling into it. That's how we know they exist at all.
And contrary to the media headline (seriously the media gets a lot of science headlines way wrong these days) we already have pictures of black holes.
What we do not have is a picture of the supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy.
last few years i,ve saw this is surprising us,this shoudn,t be possible. as i,ve said scientists don,t even know whats going on,its guess work until its proved as fact.edit on 2013 by sparky31 because: (no reason given)
Panic2k11
reply to post by JadeStar
Lol it could be argues that there is really no picture of a black hole because of their nature, what we have is images of their effect on the space/time around them... My main interest in black holes is their time effect, I wonder if it can be clued out by what we see near the event horizon as it should slow the speed of light that still manages to escape (to the point it does not)...