How Close Are We to Photographing a Black Hole?
What does a black hole look like? No one knows for sure. Artists make their images based on what physicists think they look like. But that could be about to change. This Is Not What Space...
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When we look up we see moons, planets, asteroids, pulsars, star clusters, nebulae, stars asbig as whole solar systems, and millions of galaxies -- you know what we don’t see?Black holes.Because no one has ever seen a black hole.Black holes are deep, dark, swirling sinkholes of collapsed matter.That gravitational whirlwind that consumes everything and crushes it.That place where not even light can escape...Except...THIS isn’t a black hole.This is an artist’s idea of what a black hole might look like, or more precisely, thelight around it - called the Event Horizon.Think about t.v. shows and movies like stargate SG-1, Lost In Space, Star Trek..The BlackHole, and most famously Interstellar.They all have images of black holes, but no one has ever actually photographed o...
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When we look up we see moons, planets, asteroids, pulsars, star clusters, nebulae, stars asbig as whole solar systems, and millions of galaxies -- you know what we don’t see?Black holes.Because no one has ever seen a black hole.Black holes are deep, dark, swirling sinkholes of collapsed matter.That gravitational whirlwind that consumes everything and crushes it.That place where not even light can escape...Except...THIS isn’t a black hole.This is an artist’s idea of what a black hole might look like, or more precisely, thelight around it - called the Event Horizon.Think about t.v. shows and movies like stargate SG-1, Lost In Space, Star Trek..The BlackHole, and most famously Interstellar.They all have images of black holes, but no one has ever actually photographed o...
