Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 19 days agoIs a black hole spherical? How come it looks different each way you view it like on it's side or up and down?message-squaremessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up17arrow-down1message-squareIs a black hole spherical? How come it looks different each way you view it like on it's side or up and down?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 19 days agomessage-square12linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefloquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-218 days agoNot true. This is a direct image, even though it was captured by radiotelescopes and not optical ones.
minus-squareIconoclast@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up3·18 days agoThat’s a picture of the glowing plasma orbiting right outside the event horizon and the black hole’s shadow in the centre - not a picture of the black hole itself.
Not true. This is a direct image, even though it was captured by radiotelescopes and not optical ones.
That’s a picture of the glowing plasma orbiting right outside the event horizon and the black hole’s shadow in the centre - not a picture of the black hole itself.