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These are very exciting times for science. It is so neat what we are discovering every day.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 22, 2017 at 8:41 AM
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can we throw select people into the black hole? 
posted by
-blackcat
on September 22, 2017 at 7:26 AM
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I find this fascinating. Confusing, but fascinating. I know people who
function like black holes, where no light ever escapes and getting too close will get you absorbed by a singularity. Interesting as the study of the universe and how the physics work, I am not interested in an exploratory mission to actually observe a real black hole - I'm fairly convinced there's no safe approach.
posted by
Pat_B
on September 22, 2017 at 5:04 AM
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Wow. Between the two of you I think I'm getting a headache (smile)... I think I will need to read both the post and the comment several times...! xx
posted by
mneme
on September 22, 2017 at 1:14 AM
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Nautikos
A fun post, this is. The EHT is focusing on two targets, giving us twice the chance of not only seeing an almost shadow of part of a black hole, but two of them? Good thinking. Will we get results from both at the same time, do ya' think? Naw! And the chance to investigate and peek at parts of the disk behind the black hole because of space-time curvature is amazing! But what is just as exciting as the concept of an actual view of the event horizon or the disk is, to me, seeing what exactly (or not exactly) a very strong space-time curvature will do to our concept of the vision or images we receive, and how those images will be perceived/interpreted, allowing for the distortion. Do I have that sorta right? :) Now I have to ask this: why do accretion disks emit light, and at that, a light strong enough to reach our telescopes? Does anyone know? Thanks, Naut!
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on September 21, 2017 at 8:41 PM
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