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bcraven • today at 11:01 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

It's the one in your head that you picture, as not many have been taken:

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/astronomers-reveal-firs...


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somat • today at 11:59 AM

The EHT is a remarkable achievement in datagathering and collaboration. But I always sort of wonder, a bit of doubt if you will. seeing as the process(simplified nearly to the point of absurdity) is that of building a image generator based off what we think a black hole looks like then feeding it very vague spectral data and getting it to generate an image. isn't that a huge confirmation bias. That is. of course the black hole looks like simulated ones, that is how the generator was programmed to make them.

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GreenLightGo • today at 11:27 AM

Why does it look like it's moving to me?

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lifestyleguru • today at 11:17 AM

I remember times when the best available photo of Pluto looked like this.