Scientists react to first image of a black hole

As the first ever picture of a black hole was revealed, we asked researchers what this breakthrough means for them and for science.
Read more in Nature's news story: www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
Presented by Davide Castelvecchi, featuring Heino Falcke, Luciano Rezzolla, Katie Bouman, Monika Moscibrodzka and Junhan Kim.
#realblackhole #EHTblackhole

[@faisalmansoor110]

I wish Stephen Hawking would be there today to see the image of a black hole.

[@arielburrow9433]

Faisal Mansoor this comment made my eyes sweat

[@magdalenadom3769]

I thought the same

[@shujanotfound]

@Sometimes Blue bruh

[@papel6280]

About two years ago I translated Katie Bouman (one of the scientists in the video)'s TED talk of "How to take a picture of a black hole" as a volunteer translator, and that was my first-ever translation, and as a result also the one that's left the most impact on me. I vividly remembered her talking about how she is a computer scientist, how her algorithms work ("like a disco ball"), how she is grateful for working in such a team, and she said maybe soon we'll be able to see the first-ever image of a black hole! At the time I have no idea what phrases like "soon" or "near future" means, and didn't fully realize the scope of the work (it's from translating that TED talk and looking up words did I first learn the term "event horizon"). But NOW THIS DAY ACTUALLY CAME!!!!! And in the same way through the same medium of a video I "see" her again! And it's just unbelievable... The fact that we are experiencing scientific progress everyday, and the unbelievably rapid rate of it, even though for most of the times those small but numerous steps of progress stay behind the scenes. I'm actually crying. Shoutout to all of the scientists. Thank you so much for making all the incredible things to happen. A high school student 100 years in the future may not remember the date or even the year this picture is published. But in my lifetime, I will.

[@yokiamah]

That's awesome 😁

[@rootytuners]

@Anney Ye - I enjoyed your post - at the end, did you mean “100 years from now,” or “100 years in the future,” instead of “100 years ago”? I don’t want to misunderstand your message.

[@wmurray003]

Somebody give Anney a ribbon.

[@kietphamquang9357]

at that time, you had no idea what you were translating become one of the most spetacular event of science in 2019

[@naughtyadventuresofmcbrouh5410]

Your story gave me shivers, thank you

[@richsutton51502004]

They're high fiving off the edge of the stage like it's a rock concert, priceless.

[@geekscene7187]

I know! I found this to be so sweet and kind of cute :D

[@ZigealFaust]

Nah. People at rock concerts high five off the edge of the stage like it's a scientific breakthrough for humanity.

[@rinchannel4990]

well we all have our own unique passion

[@DudeWhat31]

imagine making fun of people because you feel inferior...

[@timp5406]

InsertNameHere wdym

[@Coryconqueso59]

I’m so proud of our species. Great day for humanity!

[@heyp1760]

Yet there is school shootings and violence around the world and social media which controls today’s youth

[@Coryconqueso59]

Rooo P for the universe’s sake, don’t make this political and just enjoy this amazing scientific achievement.

[@timhoward5]

@@Coryconqueso59 lol

[@sad-7477]

KZbin Censorship Account go somewhere else related to that topic stop bringing irrelevant topics here dumbass. Nobody’s talking about that

[@DannyBoy443]

Took us long enough lol. You know another more advanced species is like "Heey, Gelbus! Gelbus check out Earth! They finally found out what a black hole looks like. Gelbus: Oh yeah? Damn, about time. They needed what? A whole planet telescope?! Wow. Cool well I'm bored lets go start another species"

[@ozzyg82]

See what happens when people come together. I think in this day and age, it’s just as miraculous and wonderful to see how well humans can collaborate over a common cause as it is to view such amazing results of this collaboration.

[@TheChickenRiceBowl]

@@iamtheboxer Individuals like you are why we're light years behind almost every other species in this universe.

[@user-pu7kx6ei7d]

Did you recall a Blackhole "Common"?

[@NyanHomeschoolGirl17]

TheChickenRiceBowl Yo, do you have evidence of other species? I'm not trying to be an asshole but I'm genuinely intrigued! You speak as though you know they're there?!

[@billybong7394]

The amazing results were a blurry blob

[@nishlimbu4026]

@iamtheboxer Useless information? This is one of the first steps in unlocking how the universe works and potential information to better help the human race advance in years of our time. We are discovering the fundamentals of what will be a bigger picture for the better future!

[@jubaerjami]

I love the way this video is π minutes

[@FaizanAnwerAli]

Damn that's good observation

[@Laura-ms9gs]

1 second off but close enough

[@FaizanAnwerAli]

@@Laura-ms9gs no. There is always 1 sec difference between when video is playing in player and when video is in KZbin recommendation list or Feature list. It's because video is 3.13 and some millisecond which youtube player ignore but on list it round of time

[@nAndy416]

Wouldn't π minutes be something like 3:08 minutes?

[@jubaerjami]

@@nAndy416 elaborate please?

[@ayushsharma4894]

0:56 when my crush accepts my friend request

[@sebastiantelles]

😂😂

[@sebastiantelles]

Imma a year late but still 😂

[@IcaroLeandrodeOlivei]

lol

[@roshanzammerhussian9929]

Anybody remember Katie Bouman at 1:13 from Ted talks , her speech was wonderful on black holes

[@imlegit8325]

Roshan Zammer Hussian oh yaaaaaaa

[@MrEtovam]

must be her own hole

[@drzecelectric4302]

Yessir!!!!!!

[@agila6568]

Just watched it a earlier.

[@proserfina21096]

@@agila6568 me too

[@raphaelan.a8220]

I didn't cry watching sad television drama, but sob like a baby seeing the joy in scientists' faces in thus monumental discovery. Good work everyone, thank you for advancing humanity!

[@pwnmeisterage]

A century of theory layered on theory with a big wobbly question mark at the bottom can now rest on observable phenomena instead of just a fancy mathematical foundation.

[@nicholashylton6857]

We live in such a great time of discovery in cosmology! Way to go, guys! This is a jaw dropping accomplishment.

[@nicholashylton6857]

@karma tam And the influenza virus type A, H1N1? And cosmic rays? And Marlborough Brand Cigarettes? Please give the hardworking scientists and engineers some appreciation for their historic accomplishment. Pretty please?

[@nicholashylton6857]

@karma tam _Must.... resist... temptation... for... pointless... theology... debate!!_ *_I... Must... Resist!!!_* But seriously... If you believe the Abrahamic God enabled them to build the EHT, run the experiment and achieve their goal, that's fine by me. Scientists who do basic research need all the help and funding they can get.

[@mrtaylor5042]

Nicholas Hylton hear hear! Stellar fake CGI photo!

[@NyanHomeschoolGirl17]

karma tam I'm offended on behalf of the amazing people who made this possible that you could reduce this fantastic achievement to "proof" of some stupid deity.

[@jayjocrazy5218]

@Event Horizon Diehold Foundation is very unscientific and completely false.

[@yamuna6154]

We’re seeing a 55 million year old picture.

[@warbacca1017]

I love stuff like this, where normal people can look at a picture or set of numbers and say "it doesnt look that impressive", whereas those in the respective fields understand the full significance and are just over the moon with excitement.

[@TheNewThrone]

I wish Einstein and even more so Stephen Hawking could have seen this

[@space.404]

I said that to myself the first time I saw the photo

[@reemakhoosal]

Sean Taylor I totally agree!

[@bhuvaneshs.k638]

I wish Galileo, Newton, Einstein and Stephen Hawking all could have seen... Just kidding , Yeahhh it's a crazy power we have to see this monster, 55 million light years away which sucks everything and wraps space time!!

[@mid5503]

@@bhuvaneshs.k638 not suck

[@mid5503]

@@bhuvaneshs.k638 the good term is fall since it's just gravity

[@Smudgie]

I am in awe of such people with the capacity to calculate unimaginably complex algorithms. I hope Miss Bouman receives the salary she deserves.

[@abbieamavi]

I remember watching Dr Katie Bouman's video speech on this!! I was so excited, and my younger siblings didn't understand how I always looked in textbooks for a Black Hole!! then I reached my 20s and finally saw it

[@emgee44]

I just watched the TED talk from two years ago given by Katie Bouman and now we have end result. Her enthusiasm is infectious and her explanation in that talk was easier to understand than the one during the press release - “glitter ball” - I get it now. A massive congratulations to everyone involved in this massive endeavour, a definite contender for the Nobel if ever there was one...sorry Sheldon 🤣👏👏👏

[@jjeherrera]

Now you can direct your telescopes to Cadarache and find another kind of black hole there :-D

[@tazboy1934]

At Trump brain

[@TheChickenRiceBowl]

@@iamtheboxer I think just looking in the general direction of the American national debt would cause another black hole in and of itself.

[@cutemedli7]

I would like to thank the scientific community for their hard work to produce and show us this marvelous picture! It really makes appreciate life more!

[@newjerseywhistleblower5097]

History, this is history in the making! Not many realise the implications & gravity of this! What a great time to be alive.

[@sentrylevel]

What are the implications and gravity of this blurry ass photo they created?

[@cygnustsp]

@@sentrylevel try reading something

[@sentrylevel]

@@cygnustsp Why don't you explain yourself.

[@ervivekchoubey]

Proud to be human. All the human being on earth irrespective of their identity, caste, color, etc. should celebrate this moment as its victory of all of us. Our ancestors must be proud today. Think of what our ancestors would have thought when they discovered fire/Saturn rings. They were unsure but curious and made us curious about them as well which led to the more deep knowledge about these things. I am hopeful, we have already opened a new book and who knows we might be able to understand blackholes and think about plethora of things we can know and understand!

[@CavernaTechdoLobo]

it's so exciting to see the mass ring surrounding the supermassive black hole, it's mysterious and fascinating, I f*cking love science, I want to thanks all the men and women who worked on this

[@signofastorm]

To iterate: All the "pictures" and animations of black holes in popular science books, movies and so on were purely based on predictions and now we know that they were spot on. I'm absolutely delighted. Woohoo, science!

[@RaysAstrophotography]

Great replay! Excellent Video!

[@cristianblack]

Man, I love the way how Katie is excited about! You can tell by her voice...

[@danielwhyatt3278]

Simple, yet SO MAGNIFICENT.

[@sasha1551]

Wow its impressive that a woman only in her twenties was able to make the discovery! This is huge! congrats!

[@tubigor2466]

Wow guys so this is what technology has bought us the first ever image of a black hole !!!!! This is just so amazing !!!!!!! I AM SO PROUD OF ALL THE SCIENTISTS

[@wizwo5139]

ENHANCE

[@OmegaOG3]

WHOA!! the image is so amazing! THREE CHEERS FOR SCIENCE AND HUMANKIND!!!! :) LET US USE THIS IMAGE FOR GREAT PURPOSES!!!

[@rajatgupta2339]

Congratulations...... to the dedicated team of scientist..engineers..researchers...

[@LeonardLow]

Congratulations Dr. Bouman! In light of your incredible breakthrough this week, followed by the successful Falcon Heavy launch today, may I humbly suggest that rather than place more radio telescopes on the earth, that we consider what it would take to place one on the moon? I know that asking a great deal of science and engineering; but it has always been great goals that have pushed us, as a species, to go further than we ever thought possible. A radio telescope on the moon would VASTLY increase the diameter of the radio telescope array. With your algorithm, this could create a telescope the size of not merely the earth, but of the distance from the earth to the moon... an ORDER OF MAGNITUDE larger than ground-based or even orbital radio telescopes.

[@cofiddle]

So happy for katie, fantastic job guys

[@saddamc.h.5639]

This is it... the ultimate reaction video.

[@sad-7477]

“Fine tune” *_[BLACK HOLE INTENSIFIES]_*

[@SynthgodXXX]

Epic! Can't wait to see & learn MORE!! A+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[@think8691]

THIS IS AMAZING !!! Wow so happy !

[@2hedz77]

Why did they not do the one at the center of our Galaxy first?

[@sjoerdbakker8648]

2Hedz it’s way smaller than the one in the picture and therefore more difficult to photograph

[@harpfully]

Plus all the crap to see through

[@tobiasdomes2731]

There's clouds of dust and gas between us and sagittarius A*

[@ThunderCreepers]

They did, its just not as grand looking as M87.

[@ThunderCreepers]

The Sagittarius A* image is on its Wikipedia page if you want to see it.

[@ARITRAMUKHERJEEjan1989]

It reminded me of reactions by scientists when gravitational waves were detected. Great job by great minds :)

[@cwuzzy]

do u have a link to a video of this? i would very much like to see it

[@Hugu5594]

why did they analyse that of another galaxy other than our first? and how long does it take the analysis to be processed or the data to be collected by the various telescopes? and what the volume of data that was used to get the first image of the black hole?

[@adrn_plls5392]

You know it still fascinates me how humans predicted everything out there especially the black hole.. it's just mindblowing and interesting at the same time :))

[@karinamatos4253]

She is amazing! Thanks Katie and all the team behind!

[@jordan-ho7gt]

She is not the leader, she is an assistant. Her contributions of course were huge, but there are more than 200 different people that worked on it. The projects director is Sheperd Doeleman. Katie Bouman's name doesn't even figure between the principals. You are just promoting feminist agenda.

[@karinamatos4253]

@@jordan-ho7gt And you are jealous! :P

[@jordan-ho7gt]

@@karinamatos4253 poor dumb girl, if you stay alienated so you can only get into mediocre colleges...

[@karinamatos4253]

@@jordan-ho7gt Are you already angry? :O That was pretty easy.

[@jordan-ho7gt]

@@karinamatos4253 I'm sorry for you, it's sad to see how easy it is to fool ignorant people. I feel relieved that science does not depend on people like you.

[@mysticdragonex815]

Now finally I can disprove Einstein's theory of relativity

[@007Antbond]

Did you get your degree at trump university?

[@mysticdragonex815]

@@007Antbond lol idk, but I can use black hole's acceleration to prove that something can go faster than the speed of light( I also have an equation for that)

[@prateek7140]

@@mysticdragonex815 First solve your Quadratic Equations Kid. The equation of relativs is undefined at c>0 . Solve your RS agarwal first.

[@mysticdragonex815]

@@prateek7140 haha good joke of yours. I have already solved the book, and I have also formulated the equation to my theory. Btw I am not a kid and my age is 13

[@sauviel6296]

@@mysticdragonex815 thats a kid age lil

[@M12GProductions]

We just saw the invisible. Through science, anything is possible.

[@cisnerosbeto33]

i love it. no politics. just everyone working together to explore space.

[@Wtahc]

KZbin - this was supposed to be a kind remark, not a challenge!

[@Vylkeer]

This also establishes a new record in photography for the farthest object photographed from the Earth’s surface. And at 55M light-years away, it will be tough to surpass it! What an amazing day for Science and mankind yesterday was.

[@prateek7140]

They have way distant images or specs

[@gnchicago]

Please forgive my ignorance but I have a question: How it was possible to see the black hole if it is known that nothing comes out from black hole, including the light, and that means energy. I still see a black area and some lighted surrounding that still has some energy. There is huge difference between the hungry, not satisfied black hole and little ring lighted non uniform energy around the black hole. Any way is very interesting is the first good step. CONGRATULATIONS!

[@gnchicago]

@The Pessimistic Physicist That little unit of small energy will be absorbed by the hungry black hole, it not be forgiven to travel freely alone. I concluded in other place that what we see it is an ECLIPSE of a lighted body and the black hole is between that our EARTH and that lighted body, too far away to be "eaten" by the black hole.

[@Bibibosh]

The jets - The top half of the ring condenses into a point and shoots out the bottom. The bottom half of the ring condenses and shoots out the top. In turn, spins matter certain orientation and matter maintaining ring effectively at nearly light speed.

[@res5878]

I am excited for the future of Astronomy!

[@R0B690]

Wow I forgot that I even watched Katie Bouman talk about this entire project last year and now I am seeing the results of it. Amazing stuff, I am happy for her and everyone involved.

[@dongle404]

It's news like this that brighten my day

[@blackbird2591]

I am so happy for Katie Bauman. 😄✌🏻✌🏻

[@user-zb3yl1wu8u]

So to sum up humanity at the moment: 0.013% humans = use science to figure out stuff (e.g. climate change, cure to cancer, black holes, etc.) 75% humans = in awe of scientific breakthrough 24.087% = believe the earth is flat Aliens passing by earth: "...stop looking at it, keep driving" said the alien to its pilot.

[@DoomCycle]

Wow. A rendered picture. Impressive.

[@racheledominguez308]

My 9 year old daughter says, "WOW! This is huge!"

[@sad-7477]

That’s what she said But yea it is holy

[@SK-ku9ut]

That is wonderful that she is so appreciative! As a teacher of 25 years, I can tell you, kids will appreciate more and more of nature, and all kinds of other things in the world when we get excited about those things with them!

[@lindamuvic8110]

Must be great to be able to understand this stuff, and then find a way to actually find and see these phenomenon, WoW.

[@acetraker1988]

technically it isn't a picture of a black hole, it's a picture of the effect a black hole has on the surrounding space/etc.

[@amitavmostafa9841]

Nobody: This guy^:this thing^

[@Go4Noctis]

Yes but that is basically what the human eye does so does it really matter. Our eye doesn't SEE anything it absorbs photons that bounce off objects or are absorbed.

[@knucklehoagies]

It took 8 telescopes to get this blurry image? From our view, this is a big advancement for our species. But it really puts it into perspective how primitive the human race still is.

[@elbanieves5972]

Congratulation Katie Bouman and all scientific community .

[@bigboy6191]

So smart & intelligent, our scientific community.

[@JJs_Reports_Official]

Scientist: first picture of black hole Humanity: memes

[@adesorcuppy4225]

A great discovery of something I really don't want to go anywhere near at. I like looking at it though while slowly taking one or two steps back...

[@SK-ku9ut]

Yep! It would definitely be a "woa- WOOOAAHH!! Moment...! 😲. 😆😆🤓

[@unchartedcheese1012]

Holy crap, never thought I would see a black hole

[@codyxehanort9926]

At long last, we are one step closer to understanding what a black hole truly is

[@timhoward5]

Spread your cheeks and you'll found out

[@coreymckay5202]

We know what they are perfectly well. We dont know how the laws of physics operate within the event horizon, and even around the blackhole itself. This photo is amazing just in the fact that it shows us our laws dont break down around the black hole alone. It could also teach us more about black holes as we observe them directly with more fidelity in the future as well :)

[@CaptainAHD]

I just wish Stephen Hawking could have seen this.

[@briiiibrii]

Awesome !!! 🙌

[@lorddeath6300]

It’s Sauron! And he’s hiding in space, secretly gathering strength

[@mashable8759]

Thank you katie

[@christophersorensen6522]

1:40 I love her enthusiasm!

[@imbatmanbuturnot]

she came up with the imaging algorithm :)

[@Serbdom93]

@@imbatmanbuturnot Pretty sure that her algorithm ultimately wasn't used

[@prathamhalkatti6438]

Well after seeing the details i conclude that the accretion disk rotates clockwise well it's kind of perpendicular to our earth even after gravitational lensing

[@prathamhalkatti6438]

Great achievement

[@Theiftanlazx]

should be called "my reaction to first dude wit hglasses face"

[@ohlawd3699]

Cool story bro! 😂👍

[@Kaervek87]

Katie Bouman - be my friend already.

[@MegumiHayashida]

I feel like this is just the beginning of bigger problems once we witness what that thing actually really does

[@bananian]

It's actually the portal to hell!!!

[@MegumiHayashida]

@@bananian I don't wanna think about it.

[@antinwoilluminati7583]

We can see light from light years away but can't see a light from 20 miles away.

[@rosman2635]

Confucius once said the hardest thing is to find a black cat in a dark room especially when there is no cat.

[@kingkemet2527]

Two bizarre facts is this black hole is a billion times heavier than our sun and 2nd this image probably millions of yrs old

[@Merlin-yy6ms]

it is millions of years old because its millions of light years away. and as you know 1 light year takes light 1 year to travel that far

[@hemanthkumarHere]

Waiting from Katie bowman's TED talk to this day.

[@MrEtovam]

who's hole was that?

[@duchi882]

*_You can make a religion out of this_*

[@zxshean5226]

Lol

[@zxshean5226]

I know that

[@dinkan_dinkan]

Miss you HawKING 💛

[@rikeshkishoresahay5475]

Congrats to Katie!

[@VladDascaliuc]

Damn, this new seasonal anime is quite good.

[@abbygale420guin2]

Check out Katie bouman's TED Talk. She called it

[@tigdogsbody]

Who do I thank for this wonderful image? I would dearly like to shake there hand.

[@Meeepmeep]

Katie Bouman 1:10 almost 2 years ago. I saw her tedtalk

[@sim4fun]

Gutted that Hawking didn’t get to see it, what a wonderful moment in science.

[@photon2724]

flat-earthers: We dibs the black hole being flat!

[@SmartisOG]

This is the first ever image of a black hole The first guy: Wow that's it

[@bradsmith1314]

kaitie's energy! u could see shes soo happy lol!

[@michaelstreich7734]

FLAT EARTHERS: "We DISAGREE" NUFF SAID.

[@kienma8323]

2.2nd

[@johnnym6700]

What part of the radio telescopes data indicates that the black hole is 55 million light years away and the fact that it is 6.5 billion times the mass of our sun? How do they single out the electromagnetic waves of the M87 black hole from the billions upon billions of other waves arriving simultaneously from stars, galaxies and other astronomical bodies? The image is incredible and its hard to imagine it was put together from raw data collected from a multitude of radio waves! Well done to the team!

[@twitchster77]

Pretty much the same reaction I had the first time I saw a pretty girl after hitting puberty.

[@shivaschimera6101]

I'm happy for them.

[@turtleman6281]

My couch has a black hole I'm always losing stuff.

[@7Earthsky]

Pictures of Pluto, landing on comets, probes sent to the Sun, colliding black hole detection and now direct detection of one...It gives me hope that our species won't expire due to severe stupid.

[@the10thman87]

These Scientist are amazing. Not because there is now a Picture, but that they built the technology to take it. I'm not a physics major, but I never had any problem visualizing the Event Horizon, and I have seen renderings that are identical to the Picture. So what did these people prove? They proved that nothing...and I mean nothing is going to stop this Human Species from conquering the Universe. Our collective minds can achieve anything. What a wonderful future for us. I think rational thought can save us.

[@slightlyexistential1640]

Humanities another great accomplishment since 1969💪👍

[@Saurabh_Tewari007]

0:32 when you just do numericals for 2 hrs your head becames like that only

[@saputrasaputra3347]

I saw a lot of images of black holes in jamaica

[@maurostrachwitz747]

Waiting for the warp reactor, please science, make it so!