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https://phys.org/news/2019-09-team-world-black-hole-image.html

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It sounds like a lot of money, but if you have to split it between 347 scientists, it only works out to about 8,645 bucks each. I pretty sure if you added up the time they spent working on creating it, it cost more than 3 million to produce.
 
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The amazing thing to me about this image is that it lines up almost perfectly with what was predicted to be what a black hole would look like visually.

This video was posted on April 9 the day before the image was published in anticipation of the event. It's remarkably accurate.

 
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The amazing thing to me about this image is that it lines up almost perfectly with what was predicted to be what a black hole would look like visually.

This video was posted on April 9 the day before the image was published in anticipation of the event. It's remarkably accurate.

The mathematics behind the video is described in this post.
Furthermore the predicted dimension of the shadow of the M87 black hole is in agreement with the measured value.
 
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Oh that's really cool! I didn't know that you could get something that close to a black hole to take a picture of it!
They didn't. If you read the first link you will find: "Directed by Shep Doeleman at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the team spent over a decade simulating an Earth-sized computational telescope that combined the signals received by eight radio telescopes working in pairs around the world with their sights trained on the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy, 55 million light years away.

Through this technique, they were able achieve an unprecedented resolution and observe the black hole's silhouette for the first time in history, confirming theoretical predictions about these celestial objects.
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