I thought I was the only one. But there is a really good video linked at the bottom of the page that has the two images and a summary of the work to build them.
I also loved the analogies of reading the date of a coin in LA from NYC or seeing a tangerine on the moon. But they kept talking about how surprisingly small black holes are. I wanted that described in relative terms. Maybe I just did not read carefully enough but are they the size of a pinhead? The solar system? I know I can look this up.
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.
I thought I was the only one. But there is a really good video linked at the bottom of the page that has the two images and a summary of the work to build them.
I also loved the analogies of reading the date of a coin in LA from NYC or seeing a tangerine on the moon. But they kept talking about how surprisingly small black holes are. I wanted that described in relative terms. Maybe I just did not read carefully enough but are they the size of a pinhead? The solar system? I know I can look this up.
"bottom of the page that has the two images and a summary of the work to build them."
A picture + explanation below it would carry more weight than this entire article tenfold.
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...
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.
you're not the only one.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-say-something-is-wro...
Why does it look like it's moving to me?
Possibly because it's blurry your brain is trying to do stuff?
I remember times when the best available photo of Pluto looked like this.
This is a transcript of a 60-minute podcast. Would you like that TIFF in Zmodem format? Or they could read it out in base64?