#GOOD JOB FRANCE YOU DID THE IMPOSSIBLE AND TOOK A PIC OF A BLACK HOLE NOW GET TF OUTTA THERE BEFORE YOU SLOWLY DISAPPEAR | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

clover-the-awesomest · 1 year ago

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Oh... Wow. That is actually amazing...

The first simulated image of a black hole was calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.

#Because of Murder Drones I've been slowly learning more and more about black holes and physics and stuff like that and it's amazing-#-to me how my interests have suddenly led me to finding this #Like. A PICTURE OF A BLACK HOLE??????????? Bruh. Black holes are some of the most dangerous shit you could ever encounter.#The fact they managed to score this is INSANE!!#GOOD JOB FRANCE YOU DID THE IMPOSSIBLE AND TOOK A PIC OF A BLACK HOLE NOW GET TF OUTTA THERE BEFORE YOU SLOWLY DISAPPEAR #jk it just looks like they'll slowly disappear for us because we're looking from the outside in.#What'll actually happen is a very quick and probably painful death where their body gets super stretched out or something.#That's what it'll look like for us but like a gazillion times slower #I forget how to explain it #It's such a cool thing to learn tho amiright #wordz

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