First picture of black hole

[zubenelgenubi]

How do any of you know that's actually an image of a black hole, or even a representation of a bunch of data that is supposed to have been gathered from a black hole? It's most likely you don't, you're just being told it is and you're like "derp, ok! Have some more millions."

What disappoints me is this is not even an image of a black hole. This is just what is most likely sorta looks like.

Wtf 26 million doesn’t even get you the real McCoy.

At least now you got a made up picture of where all you tax money ends up.

 

[It will be fine]

The picture is a blurry blob of light. I'm not impressed.

Just proving my point. Thanks.

 

[Fred's Myth]

Just proving my point. Thanks.

Two different things: Impressed by science vs. Impressed by representative image.

Your highbrow attitude fails as a cover for your intelligence.

 

[BrownArmy]

Katie Bouman 'hardly knew what a black hole was.' Her algorithm helped us see one

This is probably someone else’s life work and then some 29 year old affirmative action hire becomes the woman achievement poster child of it with very little understanding of that person’s life work.

She was an affirmative action hire?

(she's a white-girl)

Shhh, go back to Pikachu vids.

 

[bacha29]

Give her the Nobel, freaking amazing.

She will definitely be in the running for it, if not her alone then the team itself.

 

[BrownArmy]

What disappoints me is this is not even an image of a black hole. This is just what is most likely sorta looks like.

Wtf 26 million doesn’t even get you the real McCoy.

Aannnnddd...

You describe, yet again, our failure as a country to properly educate our citizens.

 

[BrownArmy]

Two different things: Impressed by science vs. Impressed by representative image.

Your highbrow attitude fails as a cover for your intelligence.

Dude, the 'pic' is the interpolation of eight different telescopes...

We (humans) just imaged something 53 million light years away.

That's the equivalent of you standing on your porch and looking at the dimples on an orange which is on the moon.

Don't put down the 'representative image', that's a masterwork of science, and yes, it's a real picture.

 

[El Correcto]

Dude, the 'pic' is the interpolation of eight different telescopes...

We (humans) just imaged something 53 million light years away.

That's the equivalent of you standing on your porch and looking at the dimples on an orange which is on the moon.

Don't put down the 'representative image', that's a masterwork of science, and yes, it's a real picture.

I imagine things all the time. I don’t charge 26 million dollars to imagine them.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

I imagine things all the time. I don’t charge 26 million dollars to imagine them.

Interpolation is not imagining.

In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, interpolation is a method of constructing new data points within the range of a discrete set of known data points.
It is the basis of Calculus (High School math) and Differential Equations (Sophomore College Math).

 

[It will be fine]

I imagine things all the time. I don’t charge 26 million dollars to imagine them.

You’re just mad because no one will pay you 26 million. Quit crying, get some skills and learn to avoid taxes if they bother you so much.

 

[It will be fine]

Interpolation is not imagining.

In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, interpolation is a method of constructing new data points within the range of a discrete set of known data points.
It is the basis of Calculus.

Too many science words for these forgotten mouth breathers.

 

[BrownArmy]

I imagine things all the time. I don’t charge 26 million dollars to imagine them.

You don't have any idea how big a deal this is.

It's ok, I didn't have any idea how big a deal it was that Pikachu did __ and then ___.

Crazy Pikachu!

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Interpolation is not imagining.

In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, interpolation is a method of constructing new data points within the range of a discrete set of known data points.
It is the basis of Calculus (High School math) and Differential Equations (Sophomore College Math).

Too many science words for these forgotten mouth breathers.

I resisted getting into Interpolations based on Fourier Transforms which is how one codes calculus in lower level languages such as Fortran and APL.
I never used this after I went full-time with UPS.
Linear Interpolations all the time however.

 

[newfie]

I resisted getting into Interpolations based on Fourier Transforms which is how one codes calculus in lower level languages such as Fortran and APL.
I never used this after I went full-time with UPS.
Linear Interpolations all the time however.

All those fancy words for a blurry blob

 

[It will be fine]

I resisted getting into Interpolations based on Fourier Transforms which is how one codes calculus in lower level languages such as Fortran and APL.
I never used this after I went full-time with UPS.
Linear Interpolations all the time however.

I AP’d out of the first year of calc in high school. My 200 level course told us the first day our grade would be the combo of all exams over the semester or our final grade whatever was higher. I walked out, studied a week before the final and got a B+. Last math I studied, I didn’t enjoy much after it got into theoretical stuff beyond practical use.

 

[BrownArmy]

All those fancy words for a blurry blob

Not the sharpest tool in the tool-box I guess.

 

[newfie]

Just proving my point. Thanks.

It's still a blob of nothing

 

[Fred's Myth]

Dude, the 'pic' is the interpolation of eight different telescopes...

We (humans) just imaged something 53 million light years away.

That's the equivalent of you standing on your porch and looking at the dimples on an orange which is on the moon.

Don't put down the 'representative image', that's a masterwork of science, and yes, it's a real picture.

No it’s not. The light spectrum is not visible to the human eye, so it was ‘colorized’ so we could.

 

[rod]

Give her the Nobel, freaking amazing.

Hell-if they could give Obama a Nobel give her a dozen of them.

 

[MrFedEx]

Two different things: Impressed by science vs. Impressed by representative image.

Your highbrow attitude fails as a cover for your intelligence.

Science scares you, doesn't it? It probably should, since you clearly aren't capable of understanding any of it. Insert head back into sand, which is part of a flat Earth that is only 6,000 years old.