First Image of a Black Hole!

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black hole at the center of M87, finding the dark central shadow in accordance with General Relativity, further demonstrating the power of this 100 year-old theory.
To understand more about why the shadows look the way they do, check out: • How to Understand What...
I will continue updating this description with more links.
Event Horizon Telescope collaboration: ve42.co/EHT
Animations and simulations with English text:
L. R. Weih & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)
• Accretion flow onto a ...
Video of observation of M87 courtesy of:
C. M. Fromm, Y. Mizuno & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)
• Using VLBI to create a...
Video of observation of SgrA* courtesy of
C. M. Fromm, Y. Mizuno & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Z. Younsi (University College London)
• Using VLBI to create a...
Video of telescopes in the array 2017:
C. M. Fromm & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)
• Telescopes in the Even...
Animations and simulations (no text):
L. R. Weih & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)
• Accretion flow onto a ...
Special thanks to Patreon supporters:
Donal Botkin, Michael Krugman, Ron Neal, Stan Presolski, Terrance Shepherd, Penward Rhyme
Scale animation by Maria Raykova

[@alexanderlaurin4293]

For everyone who complains about it being so blurry. You realize how far away it is right?

[@Roboprogs]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_interferometer I remember how amazed I was to see images of the red giant star Betelgeuse back in the 90s.

[@DailyDoseofShortsVideos]

Mad Pyer honestly the farther the better

[@Roboprogs]

And Betelgeuse is about 1000 times wider in terms of angular diameter (50 milliarcseconds vs micro)

[@syedmdabdullah3052]

They should have used p30 pro ( joke) 😂😂😂😂

[@howardm.burgers]

I don't see anyone complaining about that.

[@daisyyg]

i wanna go in creative mode and explore space

[@dottydachicken8440]

Me too man, me too.

[@Taha632RMF]

Too bad god gave us hardcore mode and kept the creative mode for himself

[@thatonezeldafan5275]

@@BiggieSmokes187 notch: am I a joke to u

[@macaroon_nuggets8008]

Or spectator mode so I can use the mouse wheel to speed up

[@thatonezeldafan5275]

@@macaroon_nuggets8008 smart

[@forbes7410]

Man, It’s sad how Stephen hawking never got to see this.

[@Cybernaut551]

Same.

[@diamond-heart21]

Benjamin S. this reminds me of the “enjoy your meal! you too” meme lol

[@runa9306]

@@diamond-heart21 oh yea haha good one

[@diamond-heart21]

The Joke Ruiner why? I just said what I thought

[@neildown7231]

Hawking was a stooge and said the dumbest crap imaginable like the Universe starting from an infinitely hot spaceless point🤦🏼‍♂️

[@TechnologistAtWork]

I think it's more impressive that Einstein came up with the general relativity without even having access to any of this tech we have today, he just mathematically predicted its existence. The man was a living super computer.

[@amitbanerjee6021]

Well actually Einstein disproved the existence of true mathematical black holes

[@TechnologistAtWork]

@@amitbanerjee6021 doesn't matter, he predicted the possibility of its existence.

[@amitbanerjee6021]

@@TechnologistAtWork wrong

[@TechnologistAtWork]

@@amitbanerjee6021 oh so you're right because you said "wrong"? What a jackass.

[@MrScrofulous]

He didn't even have a ball-point pen.

[@ivansidorov6391]

Light: Travels 54 million light years across the space Humanity: Forms itself, develops technology and catches it at the last moments Internet: It's blurry doe

[@goutamboppana961]

oof

[@memati7199]

The last moments !! Are you referring to the dilation of the cosmos ? Or to the life expectancy of a black hole ?

[@ipassingthrough]

That pretty much sums it up lol hail the tiktok generation

[@jackyourmotherisapussyassc164]

@@ipassingthrough yea these punk zoomers are ridiculous

[@nikotakai8796]

The last moments of what?

[@simoncowell1424]

This is a historic moment. This image will now be used in the science books for schools and colleges as the first image of a black hole

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Simon Cowell if such thing as updated textbooks in this day and age, it would be on the cover most likely

[@AlisonBryen]

Yes...I was thinking that myself earlier! It's like the photograph of the Earth taken from the moon, or the picture taken of the astronaut during the first spacewalk in 1984, or the Pale Blue Dot. They are iconic images that appear in so many textbooks and encyclopedias and are now part of the visual record of our space exploration history. This image is up there with those!

[@magmafang7187]

Not enough real/truth information for it to be included. Yet

[@_AriseChicken]

No it won't, information of this magnitude is kept secret from the general population. It's a control method. Schools and colleges are designed to brainwash.

[@Antzy0001]

Why so many animations along with image?

[@nadiadesiana9127]

Wow, it's almost 2 years ago. Time flies so fast

[@RolaiEckolo]

Unless you're orbiting that black hole in the photo haha

[@nadiadesiana9127]

@@RolaiEckolo good one😂

[@anuragnaidu7517]

Yep I forgot about it until I got this in my recommendations.

[@Oripave]

@@RolaiEckolo good one my man😂

[@LordNicht]

Are you sure Time can fly?🤔 Do they have wings? Or do they float? Man what is happening to my brain after watching all these videos...

[@Anticulation]

I cannot describe my appreciation for science. It brings tears to my eyes at how profound the human mind has become. It also sends chills down my spine. There's always something at the back of my mind that tells me i already know all of this. As though i've experienced a black hole for myself.

[@Randaddy25]

All witnessed by a collective of organic tissue encased in skin. We don't appreciate the complexity and beauty of life and everything in it. Cheers! I wish the very best to you and yours!

[@incitatus634]

Plato's reminiscence

[@OrwellianDystopia1984]

Humanity is devolving due to dumb people breeding like rabbits.

[@happyarewewhosmile]

0:33 anyone else realize the back of Yu-Gi-Oh cards got the shadow-realm 100% right

[@Whalien-jb7gf]

omg yes

[@sharkboss97]

hahaha

[@cbull283]

Hold up chief...

[@DaftPunkSkittle]

Monkas

[@VeeAmericanEagle]

🙀🤯

[@Resonate911]

later at year 4152 *REAL BLACK HOLE TEST AND UNBOXING, GONE WRONG!*

[@victorjimenez8394]

Resonate YT comment of the day!

[@rinagrace856]

3000 years only and it will go back to 0 year

[@danielepson6219]

Black holes react to KZbinrs reacting to first image of black hole My morning routine (Spring update) | Black Hole BOWLING BALL Vs. BLACK HOLE from 45m! Black hole does my make-up

[@vigneshbaiju8973]

Legend has that this guy is an actual Time traveller

[@alienes6533]

@@danielepson6219 1000°C Knife vs Black Hole 😂

[@mizukuruma9483]

This is actually how it looked like 53.5 million years ago, the black hole may not be looking like this in the present, but still fascinating :o

[@blade4174]

Man using this kind of process I hope aliens are taking pictures of Dinosaurs that used to live in our planet millions of years ago.

[@supercraquelin9510]

I did my final presentation for my French class on this video, got me a 90% thank you Veritasium. Keep making video, I love it!

[@aatroxplays3183]

Dude, find your own blackhole...

[@e10byagrue]

4:24 "confirming beyond a *shadow* of a doubt" WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS?

[@veritasium]

e10byagrue I’m a dad now.

[@spencestep1998]

Veritasium dad jokes ftw

[@duchi882]

*Veritasium,* no wonder

[@scottmaxwell1927]

@@veritasium congratulations for your efforts on both the dad joke front and in providing intellectual nourishment.

[@micanikko]

@@veritasium Congratulations!

[@bguzewi0]

I remember when the image first released to the public, and people were complaining at how blurry it was. I don’t think they appreciated how incredible it is that we could take a picture of any one thing from over 50 MILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY. Idiots.

[@karonsimmons3239]

Yeah. It’s as far as you can go. And if you could go farther, you’d have to have AMAZING technology... which we don’t have...

[@TheGamingNorwegian]

@@karonsimmons3239 Yet*

[@honestyfenix530]

We all wish we were as smart and wise as you Mr....whatever.

[@garrettwilson2626]

People say it as a joke

[@blacklyfe5543]

You're a idiot its not our fault we didn't see it

[@ArchangelExile]

2:37 Derek: Its size is 40 microarcseconds Thumbnail: Its size is 50 microarcseconds

[@saemstunes]

Still, he is correct. When you put a meter rule against an object for size comparison, that object doesn't automatically become 1m long. He put up the measurement of 50 microarcseconds as a side comparison of how long 40 microarcseconds is. But good observation, though now you can stand corrected.

[@goosieroll]

it amazes me every time whenever i realize that things like this ARE real, its literally so cool. like how dinosaurs are real, and how people find fossils of their bones, and teeth and what not, and how they even get a glimpse of this black hole. and its even more amazing how there could be more creatures out in the ocean that has yet to be discovered

[@jamostudios7596]

Life’s beautiful isn’t it ?

[@blacktoo]

It is also so important to think about the great creator "Allah" who created all of this, we should know about him, why he created us? , why he has sent to us messenger? what is the message ?what after life?

[@adithyavraajkumar5923]

I hate that black holes exist. It terrifies me a little that there are regions of space-time from where not even light can escape. I kinda wish Einstein had been right.

[@kaleb5265]

Never in my life have I been so enthused by a blurry photograph.

[@elcarlos8905]

Ill bill facts

[@thePronto]

How about Princess Kate topless?

[@zariski]

your neighbors must have been ugly.

[@zariski]

​@@thePronto he seems the Harry type.

[@kwisatzhaderach1458]

Cuz you're low energy

[@HiyaKaia]

I don't remember this picture being a year old edit: 2 year ig?

[@yztefenbrianb.sanpablo666]

Same dude like wtf time goes fast

[@alejandrohumbert1956]

That's because time is relative and 2020 sucks balls

[@ImShelly.]

well actually, this picture is 54 million years old. that is how long it took the light in this photo to get from the black hole to the telescopes.

[@HiyaKaia]

@@ImShelly. man time flys

[@brewse64]

do do do do, do do do do *twilight zone music*

[@drummerman1206]

Only 2 videos in from this channel and I’m already blown away enough to sub to it. I can’t wait to binge this channel this weekend. :)

[@nebula8611]

Imagine if the first image of a black hole had a mouse cursor over it

[@RolaiEckolo]

underrated comment

[@r.jguerra5526]

Sad

[@cookiejoe5564]

Black Hole looks like the back of the Yu gi Oh cards

[@sayaman2493]

Cookie Joe 😂😂😂😂 you right

[@jendacayacap7411]

Youre right look like yu gi oh card.

[@Vysair]

I can never see the world the same again

[@ianhargis182]

Haha I forgot about that

[@jubusch]

He looks like the black hole from super Mario galaxy2

[@cosmopolitan4598]

First "... the gravity of the situation..." Now, in 4:25, "... same ... features confirming beyond a SHADOW OF DOUBT.." He's a real comedian.

[@Rabahke628]

instagram.com/p/BwAiR49HDJc/?igshid=n03bhzlkcgx1

[@alex0589]

It sucks everything in, even doubt.

[@ICEcoldAryan]

Feels like it was tomorrow but can't imagine 2 years have been past. Time is really going fast

[@miqbalazzahir3461]

Yes

[@Cheetah-tz3ut]

agreed

[@theoverseer393]

The fact that we have a photo of a black hole, as well as gravitational waves, is IMMENSELY incredible

[@entrippyZ]

The fact that It looks dead on what we predicted makes me proud to be a human

[@solarflora]

Agreed you beautiful kitty cat

[@williammurphree6594]

Soup time

[@Tumbledice11]

Soup time

[@Levitiy]

Actually, this is a bad thing. We don't learn anything new without the universe throwing us a curve ball.

[@danilejai7801]

I was thinking the same thing.... how could it be SO exactly as predicted?

[@jeff2424]

Great job illustrating what micro arc-seconds looks like. Thank you.

[@MrMaiiis]

Yup

[@caad5258]

ditto

[@Youwood667]

Flat earthers will say "WHY HE USE 180 DEGREES IF THE EARTH IS ROUND"

[@davidjacobs8558]

are there any nearby stars that have big enough apparent size to resolve details?

[@Youwood667]

@13randon 13axter yes, i am actually glad and happy to be born in this time of history. We might evolve in something so good, through knowledge and love of knowledge. We need to stop being materialistic cunts all over the world. Damn if i had the power to make it change. Fingers crossed for the future !

[@dhoom-z7221]

That is such an insane amount of zooming to see the blackhole, these explanations made me really appreciate their work on a personal level

[@kxkomii3351]

we have just captured a picture of a giant hole, thousands of light years away from us, that not even light can escape it. people: it’s blurry.

[@lakshithsuvarna1104]

It is not a clear image though. I wonder how it looks IRL

[@oreochild5652]

@@lakshithsuvarna1104 probably death

[@whatdatechnodogedoin]

Yeah. Why do people expect a 4k resolution picture when security cameras don't even have 720p resolution lmao

[@ThZuao]

"Any number of experiments cannot prove me right. But a single one can prove me wrong." Going strong so far, Mr. Einstein.

[@entrippyZ]

That's an epic quote

[@chillysam1526]

Confirmation bias explained. Genius!

[@usamabinmuzaffar692]

And here people are still thinking the earth is flat... 😐

[@mobious01]

Well there are scientific theories that the universe is flat and everything is a hologram.... watch the videos very interesting stuff

[@Filo181.]

Hahaha they are just a few idiots everyone knows earth is square...

[@wiswc]

Well what proof do we have either that the picture isn't faked

[@ronocordera]

Looks like the eye of Sauron in the movie Lord of the Rings!

[@blueey2938]

"do your research" is the same as "watch some youtube videos" for flat brainers lmao all their "science" comes from videos uploaded by mentally disabled people

[@blackhole1512]

I’m cool, right?

[@Dude-etiquette]

I love the passion of these scientists. Thank you recognising their achievements, hard work and dedication

[@ViperDivinity]

This black hole was in the past, so you currently seeing is 52 million years ago!!!! Wow!

[@lukee4066]

woah

[@DB-xv3kz]

because it is so far away, the light took 52 million years to get to the telescope

[@abasis.baruti9819]

Amazing

[@topic260]

Wow, so much ping

[@Mark-Wilson]

the coolest thing is that it's probably not a quasar anymore wow

[@ProCenb]

Warning : The picture of Sagittarius A* in this video is not an actual picture but a simulation, according to comments on the corresponding video linked in the sources, comments made by someone from the RelAstro Group. This is probably gonna be drowned under the other comments here, but it's still worth mentionning.

[@allajunaki]

The video does say “image reconstructed” for Sagittarius A.

[@Meta11axis]

Gave my upvote to improve the visibility of your comment amongst all the other generic and childish comments that have no reason to exist. I also made a similar comment 10 minutes ago and got buried beneath "I'm sad Steven Hawking didn't get to see this" and "why is this blurry" type garbage comments.

[@jerm_]

He mentions this in the video did you even watch it?

[@pafnutiytheartist]

@@jerm_ The video is titled "First Images of Black Holes", but only one was imaged so far so i think this is worthy of correction.

[@Meta11axis]

@@allajunaki M87 image is also reconstructed, but it's real, not a simulation. Sagittarius A* is a simulation

[@Hi_itsRaph]

exploring & expanding our knowledge of the universe i personally and wholeheartedly think is the greatest thing humankind can achieve.

[@rohitkesarwani2397]

I've been watching space videos a lot in recent weeks. And the more I am watching/understanding, the respect of Earth is getting more and more. How good the Earth is, giving comfortable atmosphere to live with. Earth is just ONE among the millions among the surrounding space stuffs.

[@clown445]

Isn’t it incredible that we can take a photo of something light years away?

[@JH-yj4fb]

No it's not incredible. I can use my phone to take pics of stars which also million ly away.

[@allrounder4677]

@@JH-yj4fb u r high nigga

[@Mazirati-hehe]

Free Fire for life maybe he high but he is right if u zoom really close u can see parts of the moon for example, plus there was 8 telescopes around the world making it a telescope as big as the earth, plus it took years to make that photo

[@allrounder4677]

@@Mazirati-hehe after all they are telescope .. its their alignment that makes this possible. But what he is talking about is shear stupidity

[@humairakhurram3615]

I'm not a fan of technology, but your right.

[@xPulsarr1]

Well the quality is still better than ufo sightings. Edit: im not complaining the quality is bad, this was a joke, chill ffs

[@Dage-bl6ru]

LOL SO TRUE XDDD

[@sirwaggington7707]

That cracked me up

[@quelmortanedo3776]

Lol

[@jivvr]

Better than bank cameras...

[@mochi7833]

Lol

[@The33e33]

Thank you so much for explain this so well to a complete newbie!

[@DyedPlays]

This kinda scared me because this means that the strength is stranger than the length in how far away it is from earth and especially since the wave is pointing almost at us that makes it more scary

[@fristyfull2655]

the blackhole is like 3000 light years away bro

[@student69741]

@@fristyfull2655 "50 Million light years away."

[@student69741]

And those "waves" are called jets.

[@nafen7158]

I don't like the wording "Almost pointed directly at us"

[@srujanaswamy4537]

ikr !! its creepy

[@TrizhaKyleOLiz]

same

[@NicholasMaietta]

Perhaps that's how earth was born.

[@TheRealBoof]

@Honudes Gai It's not particularly surprising. There's a jet on either side of the black hole, and if we estimate the angular deviation of the jet from Earth for it to still be "creepy" or unusual as ~20 degrees, then the chance of a jet being unusual is 20/180 ~ 10%. A one out of ten chance is not very low and it only goes up if you still find it unusual at larger angles. I guess it's also a perspective thing. We don't really know the angle that beam is pointing at, even though it has the illusion of pointing at us. Imagine if the jet were flat on the image and instead moving out 90 degrees away from us.

[@Fukkit_]

Boof u say a lot of words me brain 🧠 =🥔

[@MonsterKing-ux4mp]

I’m so happy I am one of the people to witness this great discovery

[@solarflora]

Ikr same

[@PabloEscobar-yt9fs]

I Am GROOT u probably gay

[@XDKvlogs]

it sounds stupid but this discovery legitimately brought me to tears because of the sheer magnitude of it. too many people will think it's 'just a photo' and never wrap their minds around the fact that we may have just experienced as big an event as newton's apple, if not bigger. This is a colossal leap for humanity and my brain is going crazy right now trying to grasp the scale of this

[@fmnbanjo4450]

Alex K It’s something to remember for sure

[@Evalan321]

everyone will witness this from now on

[@jacobchavez4719]

If this is not exciting enough, I can’t imagine what future generations will know. ❤️

[@lolpartner7580]

VERITASIUM thank you for making my day :D ---> finally understanding M87 black hole fully

[@ponkumaran6930]

A big round of applause for all those scientists in that picture and many others who contributed to this!

[@fahadbhutta3164]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@parkerpeter1795]

Pon Kumaran lol scientist study on finding the black hole that wont hurt us because it’s far away from us and thr image blurred like raw krispy kreme donut..boi i would have give the biggest applause of my life to the scientist that has cure for cancer..not for blackhole bcuz its useless to humanity tq

[@cometmace]

Here's one of those contributors from two years ago : kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHrZlq15i8imj9U

[@parkerpeter1795]

Meh K cancer hasn’t even exist that day

[@utkaaaaa]

let's watch friends now!!

[@mrlordsaif5708]

2019: Humans capture the first image of a Black Hole. 2046: Black hole captures first image of a human.

[@xplosionslite6439]

No more landfill

[@ShizukaKaguya]

F

[@hhhs4957]

I think the humans didnt capture the image of Blackhole directly, but they simulated it with telescopes help #CMIIW

[@devangib3968]

Wtf

[@aspenrebel]

"In the year ... 2525 ... if man is still alive ....." Watching the end of "Black Hole" on PBS got me here. They started talking about Black Holes getting bigger by gobbling up stars that got too close. Saying the star would start to spin around the Black Hole before going in. Then before they said it, I said "yeah, but the star would become deformed and get squashed and break apart a bit before it got sucked inside the black hole.". Then the show said pretty much just that, and had animation of star getting deformed.

[@johnmooney9444]

Thanks. You have excellent communication skills, easy to follow and understand. I wish that my college professors had such skills. Cheers

[@joaquincardona8256]

You could have showed how blurring the simulated black hole, you get practically the same picture they took, it's just a flex on how f*king good their calculations are, and I love it

[@martinblake2278]

Einstein's theory is becoming more and more concrete as time moves forward. Just shows what a special mind he truly has.

[@pcbatube]

*had

[@billsmiley6305]

smh fricking time travelers again

[@saitama5219]

@@pcbatube has*

[@saitama5219]

@justsomeguy hes made ideas about them helping people learn more about the black holes.

So special that he asked for his math teacher to solve the theory of relativity

[@GoinSolo]

The sad thing about this is that Steven Hawkings died after studying his whole life to find an actual black hole...

[@oleksiikhomenko5150]

This photo wasn't made by some random photographer. There was preparations for years so i think Hawking knew about it. He just didn't see actual photo of Black hole (It is also possible that he did see attempts to make a photo, so he could see failed photo, so he was sure there is black hole)

[@nexus4151]

Elon musk: *Am i a joke to you?*

[@Soapra]

true

[@cyb8490]

F

[@cheetosarenice4088]

@Butterball The Clown wow that's really rude why would you say that

[@karenp7601]

TRULY AMAZING AND THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE SCIENTIST THAT MADE THIS POSSIBLE FOR US NON SCIENTIST TO APPRECIATE YOUR HARD WORK AND AMAZING BRAINS 👏👏👏👍👌. STAY SAFE EVERYONE WORLDWIDE AGAINST THE COVID-19 VIRUS 😷 March 1, 2021

[@savbeeing7376]

crimg

[@KittenchaosYT]

@@savbeeing7376 lol says you

[@monitor-mindtheover-void6712]

This is a truly historical image.

[@Timocracy]

Came home after a grueling day at work, absolutely exhausted. Yet, the release of all this research and the image have wonderously lifted my spirit. What a time to be alive.

[@powderwigwoodenteethmf5037]

These videos are relaxing for me after a 12 hour shift and a 2 hour gym session. Going to bed in an hour to do it all again tomorrow

[@ryanpitre1593]

It’s weird to think we are seeing this thing 10’s of millions of years ago I wonder if we are dead yet lol like what

[@MikoGarrido]

This. Pulling 80/90 hour work weeks is worth it when I think about the privilege of being alive in this moment of history.

[@SalmanAzizOfficial]

My movie Lost in the Black Hole is much more than this

[@shahrikamin4699]

@@ryanpitre1593 wait wdym?

[@Killerean]

Scientists: "You can't see black holes." Other scientists: "Hold my beer."

[@nr_0001]

Telescope*

[@SoccerBoyAP]

You still can't see black holes, but we can now see the effects of a black hole.

[@BAITHOVEN_]

We haven't seen one yet and most likely never will, we just visually observed one.

[@vinnregi4882]

You still can't see it. You just see what's around it

[@VIZOR_AxK]

We can see the accretion disk anyways, so as the video explained, its constantly feeding. The orange yellow gliw is the natter crushed into a disk.

[@chrisblanc663]

I am just SO blown away with the achievement. It sounds so impossible to have done, yet mankind did it. I think this is as monumental a feet as the moon landing and far more difficult.

[@TheBurnknight]

this is the kind of scientific events that makes living thrilling

[@hassanhaider2380]

1948: I bet there'll be flying cars in the future! 2019: We've got something even better....

[@jojogang1012]

Flying cars would probably come around in 2078

[@jvaughn1945]

@@jojogang1012 id say around 2050

[@anonagain]

They promised me a flying car, and all I got was this lousy drone.

[@julesquintero1435]

@mrmiura story Flying cars? we already have them

[@wyattb3138]

3019: Humanity eradicated from Gamma ray burst.

[@rainaamolak4350]

For those who say the image is blurry....take a f*king space trip with a DSLR

[@allenqueen]

Or their iPhones which DUAL camera lens

[@deltamark6950]

Exactly! Thank you!

[@m.a4491]

They expect cameras to have 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000X zoom 🤣

[@rainaamolak4350]

@@allenqueen with apple watches to just see the time

[@rainaamolak4350]

@@deltamark6950 you're welcome!

[@sigasana441]

What’s trippy for me is the fact that after dividing the sky with 180 degrees, dividing the degrees with 60 mins then with 60 secs, suddenly scientists are like “time to divide it with 100s instead baby”

[@Anonymous4045]

That’s how time works too lol. Goes from hours to minutes to seconds, then centiseconds (technically deciseconds first, but who cares lol) then milliseconds, etc

[@g.w.7893]

That photo is amazing in many ways. Brilliant.

[@TheSinghisking4ever]

4:26 "Confirming, beyond a shadow of a doubt..." I see what you did there Derek.

[@jmchez]

Well, he's trying to Enlighten us to this Matter of the utmost Gravity and show us a new Perspective.

[@ilirgorani4261]

He just wanted to emphasize the Gravity of this discovery.

[@marcelofesta1290]

we have a sherlock holmes here

[@tigdogsbody]

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Team should get a Nobel Prize !!!

[@grahammilne6998]

Unfortunately only 2-3 people can get it. It can't be given to a team.

[@tigdogsbody]

Graham Milne That is unfortunate.

[@chrisoakleyfx]

@Thomas Lucas why would they be given a Nobel Peace Prize lol (he said, facetiously) They have other awards :D

[@aymanmiazi2579]

@Thomas Lucas there are more than just the peace prize, it could be the physics prize

[@tigdogsbody]

Thomas Lucas Yes, you are correct, it might bring about world peace, what a nice thought, thank you.

[@shashwath100]

Congratulations for the team

[@Tkcb2799]

@Poseidon What's so funny?

[@jimmyvien3094]

The fact that we can even still see an image of it even when it is so far away from us is mind blowing. Just shows how we can’t really comprehend how big the universe is

[@equation2764]

2019: released a black hole image 2099: opens a McDonalds in the black hole

[@GlucoseGarbage]

ikr lmao

[@sachinshahi8413]

Mc donalds at your local blackhole.

[@matthewkurosky6050]

That will never be possible

[@isakisak9989]

Would you like some warped spacetime with your big mac?

[@voidgirl7811]

XD

[@strxnqer788]

“Should I tell them I took pictures of a blurry donut”

[@caeserbro7584]

CharlesTheGamer nah just let them be happy for now

[@trgtheredstoneguy3990]

A glowing donut?

[@satheshCoimbatore259]

Actually ithu vanthu nammaluku BINARY CODE LATHA KEDAIKU.Thn atha vanthu IMAGE AH EDIT PANUVANGA.Apdetha intha pictr um nammaluku binary la irunthu image ah convert Pani potrukanga.OTHERWISE THIS IS NOT A REAL IMAGE OF BLACK HOLE.8 Telescopeklal edukapatta BINARY DATA avlothan.

[@thelaughter9267]

I saw about black hole on news paper, and Donut came into my mind.

[@navaneethsujesh850]

@Bilal Khalid you are absolutely correct.......,........................................................................................................ pffffffffffffffffftffffttfffffffffffffffffffffttfftffffffffffffffftttttttt

[@vishalgamer7269]

Hard work never fail.......! Finally the crew got this picture.......!

[@SkiCourchevel]

This guy has the best channel on all of KZbin....hands down.

[@joythegeek4571]

The telescope called Event Horizon took the first picture of a black hole. Perfection.

[@pinkharmonica7656]

I have a feeling that was the point... It was a collaboration between many different radio telescopes across the globe that were already established. They needed a telescope the size of the Earth, and this was their way to do it.

[@dwm1156]

B Xo What is it then? Here’s a definition of picture: A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc. --- It doesn’t say “photo”, it says “picture”. Get that? All photos are pictures, but not all pictures are photos. Any questions?

[@ary2766]

@@dwm1156 what's a photo ?

[@idklol4190]

Ordin Ary a picture taken from a camera, a picture is a general, as this guy said, “representation of anything” using photos etc.

[@prismations]

*Irony*

[@Mrhellslayerz]

The fact that Stephen Hawking wasn't alive to see this is actually tragic.

[@kinglion9800]

stephen*

[@TET2005]

He knew it was there... this just reaffirmed that it is actually there...

[@Jejkobbb]

They've apparently had the image since 2017 and have been analyzing it thoroughly. But they havent released it until now, Hawking died 2018 so they might have showed it to him. Who knows.

[@javierderivero9299]

@@TET2005 Yes it is ....but actually Einstein almost 100 years ago knew was there....

[@darkseid856]

@@javierderivero9299 he *knew* but he didn't saw a live proof of it.

[@ARJUNDAS-tc3sz]

hats off to the scientist for their trenmendous efforts. Hope one day we can find all the mysteries in the universe.

[@n9583]

Time passes fast it feels like it was just yesterday this master piece was released

[@mrspidey80]

"It takes about two days for the plasma to complete one orbit." Two days for an orbit around an event horizon that is as large as our solar system. Let that sink in for a moment. The speed must be insane.

[@prezas13]

Relativistically fast !

[@rxonmymind8362]

Give me Shaggies surf board! Cowabunga!!!

[@mercuryblack]

Is it the speed of light?

[@MrInstantRamen]

It might even be on the outer part of plasma ring, meaning it's even faster..

[@halcyonsandiego]

@@mercuryblack It is faster than ludicris speed, but not as fast as Plaid.

[@shubhamjha868]

Your previous video got me 1000x more excited for this

[@NatteLatteMusic]

Shubham Jha same here!

[@ahgflyguy]

Like you wanted something with a higher resolution and less fuzziness to match up with being able to see the higher-order mirror reflections around the edge? Agreed, it would be cool, but if we could do it at that resolution now, we would have come up with a really fuzzy one a decade or four ago. Check out the Diffraction Limit, see also Airy Disk. We will get better resolution when we have linked radio observatories deployed in high Earth orbit, then at the Earth - moon Lagrange points. And then at the Earth-sun Lagrange points. Diffraction-limited astronomy is expensive to improve upon when you're already using an Earth-sized aperture.

[@brunocilio223]

How people can dislike this?! Like who can dislike knowledges?!!!

[@toosavageforaname2767]

@@brunocilio223 people like flat earthers

[@frenchnoodles7546]

For all those who say that the image is blurry, let me quantify how hard it is to actually capture an image of it in the first place. It's the equivalent of zooming onto an orange on the moon.

[@DimzDaDude]

No it's not lmao it's WAY harder

[@millertimeast]

More like zooming into a sand grain on the outskirts of the milky way galaxy

[@sickegless9years452]

With a oldest nokia phone model camera.

[@zymere24anderson73]

They do realoze black holes absorb light

[@ukdavepianoman]

Orange on the moon is correct. Do the maths and it's the same relative scaling.

[@aaryapotdar]

I hats off to all people who worked day and night to capture the black hole 🙏🏻💯

[@Ahameed_100K]

✅

[@circli]

At 1:47 minutes I acquired the ultimate loading animation. Will use on some sites... Many thanks!!!

[@scrappydvg4090]

What do you mean?

[@RS-ho7of]

@@scrappydvg4090 when a webpage is loading, you get that rotating circle.....this is a cool alternative for development of a webpage.

[@marcelliino]

Alto Bluedot if the loading animation itself is a black hole, then the page would never loaded 😂

[@sumanrai8921]

Alto Bluedot genius😃😃 Aliens want to know your location😂😂

[@Krokoklemmee]

turn it into an SVG and share it :P

[@devU_69]

Congratulations to humanity. This day is historic for all of us.

[@redhotbits]

Dev Upadhyay sad day because they are faking it

[@SpecialistBR]

I somehow don't believe the entirety of humankind deserves congratulation on this.

[@pluto8404]

Over rated.

[@SuperCatTime]

@@DarkVitamins yes, yes. Big congrats all around! Keep those taxes comin'!

[@pendiicorn]

Most obvious bait troll I’ve ever seen

[@frede1905]

Congratulations to the EHT for the second black hole image! :D

[@TheAbsol7448]

Reyn, you're a lifesaver!

[@ajithan6407]

The image was 54 million light years ago. To get the current image we have to wait for another 54 million years.

[@goodassjob7714]

Light years is a distance, not time

[@ajithan6407]

@@goodassjob7714 light years is distance. But it's the distance light travels in one year on earth.For 365 days on earth light reaches a distance of 1 light year. 5 light years means light travels 5 earth years. So 54 million light years means 54 million earth years time on earth. Any correction?

[@ajithan6407]

@The Truth Do you think the image of black hole is fake?

[@ajithan6407]

@The Truth It's not the image taken by a single camera. In fact it was an image formed by taking many images and club them together.

[@hithere4289]

The Truth I can imagine it and its totally possible, like do you know how light works???

[@danedickerson]

“With a size only 40,000,000 times that of our sun” Me: *humf* “puny”

[@trenbabone6359]

Dane Dickerson buuurrrnnnnnnnn

[@downunder4664]

rookie numbers!

[@stLegion-qb9bx]

It’s still smaller than my phone screen

[@AR-ts7ot]

Yeah i was thinking how is it even small

[@kayvonrad3044]

you mean 6.5b times?

[@ModernDayGeeks]

Decades of questions as to how the things outside of our own planet would look like and now we're slowly starting to see how it unfolds. Wonderful stuff!

[@UncleGino66]

Huge props to the cameraman for travelling to space to take this picture

[@jaydutta7711]

I'm glad that I could witness this amazing discovery of black hole. My respect to the scientists & engineers who have made this possible by their dedication of hard work on this matter. Thank you all. Keep exploring the Universe.

[@Acacian141]

You didnt witness anything lol. You were shown a presentation by "scientists" I wouldn't trust with a potato gun.

[@gomezaddams9221]

Fuq exploring the universe! ! Smoke weed and fuq bitches all day!!

[@cataclysmal5315]

@Justin Torres how are you so sure that you're Justin?

[@calmestgames1352]

Indeed, this is a true marvel of modern technology and science. I did a school project about the EHT a few weeks ago. And I see it turned out a lot better than I hoped. It's crazy. Everyone who worked hard on it is completely amazing. Some may say it was pointless, but they typically don't care much for physics. But in reality this is completely monumental. It keeps relativity together, which I believe also allows for relativistic quantum mechanics. I too am glad to be here for a discovery such as this.

[@davinonnenmacher7272]

@@Acacian141 So many people involved in the process it is highly unlikely to be false. Howevet, you can always check the petabytes of data that were released and get your own conclusions...

[@IcarusGravitas]

I'm a high school astronomy teacher and you are my new best friend. Thank you for this!!!

[@AriahFN]

Matthew Amoroso you have an astronomy program at your high school? That’s awesome! I wish we had one :/

[@maurostrachwitz747]

¿What inspired you to study astronomy?

[@Lurod_]

@@maurostrachwitz747 Astronomy is truly out of this world.

[@adsc4257]

I want an astronomy teacher :(

[@ariochiv]

Fight the good fight, Mr. Amoroso.

[@ZPerpetua]

Black Hole: You can’t photograph me. It’s impossible. Tiny Scientist Chick On A Rock: *does it anyway* Black Hole: oooohhh, you sneaky bitch...

[@royharkins7066]

My head hurts with aw ..epic stuff guys , thanks

[@omarmaher3695]

Year 2098: We took the first image of inside the black hole! Inside the black hole *blackness*

[@TheBoogeyMan.]

*Darkness*

[@jeffvader811]

You could still see inside a black hole, looking out of the event horizon you would see a lot of blue light, because the gravity would doppler shift the EM radiation. Looking into the black hole you would see nothing.

[@collinward2707]

cant get the camera out tho XD

[@numankhan1466]

Things about of speed light can pass through the black hole which is impossible... At the aall universe things will be absorb by B. H

[@SuperZura91]

@Yama Kazoo A reasonable explanation would be that they don't get enough light from a good source to see them, since they're pretty far away from the sun and there isn't another star near us. Someone should correct me on this if I'm wrong.

[@bradygibson6132]

We didn’t get a pic of a black hole today we got a pic of a black hole from 54 million years ago! 🤯🤯

[@yure.i]

50 million light years means distance

[@ruthwikrao9603]

Time Dilation🤫

[@lyon9580]

@@yure.i Means both. Distance and time

[@qodeee]

jayro regalado yeah but also the time that takes light to travel that distance, so technically it is 53 million years old

[@lancelott9171]

jayro regalado it also means how long it took for the light to get to us, so yeah, the light we’re seeing is 50+ million years old.

[@sandurai1]

Even a thought of such a massive entity exists out there which devours everything it comes on it’s way. This is so humbling as a human

[@vampiresquid]

Just FYI, a milliarcsecond is the size of a dime in Paris as seen from New York City. 50 microarcseconds is 20 times smaller still - somewhat smaller than a BB, sitting in Paris, seen from New York City.

[@Akula114]

Stunning. Being born in 1955, I've seen the launch of Sputnik, Mercury 1 with Cdr. Alan Sheppard, men walking on the moon, the landing of spacecraft on Mars, an Asteroid and one of our craft (Voyager 1) actually traveling beyond the outermost reaches of our Solar system. Now, images that prove the existence of Black Holes. What a ride...

[@spaceman4330]

Imagine being duped since 1955 and feeling good about it. What a sad ride.

[@Akula114]

@@spaceman4330 That would be funny. But, I'm a fan of Stanley Kubrick's films. If anyone could pull off a fake moon landing, he could have. Maybe we just need to look at all the footage from the space program and look for his tell-tale "Easter Eggs." BTW, I admire your name. Is it Romanian? I had a housemate from Cluj, and she was one of the dearest people I ever knew.

[@Akula114]

@@_blank-_ Well, Kim, there's one more good thing about being young, you don't have to learn so damned much history! Cheers.

[@tanupriyagoel920]

Yeah, that's great

[@Erebus-PCFX]

Boomers are quite gifted indeed.

[@ArchFundy]

Many ppl have mentioned Einstein and Hawking, but I'd have liked to have heard Feynman's take on this. Congrats to the whole team.

[@AUXdrone]

Canuck Fundy all the cool kids would love to hear Feynman’s thoughts on this for sure. Preferably while he plays bongos at a bar while chasing some tail.

[@2QRh6g1I]

@@AUXdrone Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!

[@medexamtoolsdotcom]

@@AUXdrone Chasing some tail? I don't think Feynman was a player. Not that I heard at least.

[@lads.7715]

Canuck Fundy Feynman was rumored to be a fun loving, party dude, to put it mildly

[@Bacopa68]

@@medexamtoolsdotcom Between the death of his first wife in the late 40's and his remarriage to settle down as a family man, Feynman was a player. He played bongos in bars while drinking 7-Up. No booze as he was a recovering alcoholic.

[@oweeb5909]

I find it amazing that what we’re seeing happened millions of light years ago

[@abhi7265]

Since it's 54million light years away. Are we seeing this image 54million light years in the past?

[@Jveir]

Yep

[@beaner3509]

big brain

[@ThaDoggo]

@a sad potato if they zoom in from 65 million lightyears ago they would see dinosaurs 🦕

[@joshuamalott3748]

nobody: flat earthers: how did 8 telescopes around the world look at the same object simultaneously?

[@michaelmcdonagh3464]

Magical

[@rogersowers9837]

Because the earth is flat of course, (what flat earthers don't know won't make then any smarter).

[@weasle2904]

It was at slightly different times, but collected the same relativistic data while calculating the distance between the telescopes. And they also did extended exposures to get a different perspective as the earth rotates. The telescopes were also on the same side of the earth ik this is a joke, but just in case someone was wondering

[@danieljensen2626]

Because they were all on the same side of the Earth.

[@Guimaster127]

@@weasle2904 Thanks fam, I was actually wondering how they had managed to pull that off.

[@shortjohnsilver4605]

"beyond a *shadow* of a doubt" That's a pretty harmless pun. *Relative* to the ones I have seen

[@zeke2095]

Cringe

[@nomanm.5884]

r/punpatrol here to help

[@borpie]

The username and profile pic check out

[@jongyon7192p]

The harmful puns, otoh, are the ones made by the conspiracytards.

[@vinnregi4882]

lol i am holing

[@thekepnim]

This is INCREDIBLE🔥😱😱

[@saramamondal6573]

Very Useful Video