Is it just me, or could they have added a, say, picture of a black hole?

I thought I was the only one. But there is a really good video linked at the bottom of the page that has the two images and a summary of the work to build them.

I also loved the analogies of reading the date of a coin in LA from NYC or seeing a tangerine on the moon. But they kept talking about how surprisingly small black holes are. I wanted that described in relative terms. Maybe I just did not read carefully enough but are they the size of a pinhead? The solar system? I know I can look this up.

	▲	elvircrn 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"bottom of the page that has the two images and a summary of the work to build them." A picture + explanation below it would carry more weight than this entire article tenfold.

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bcraven 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's the one in your head that you picture, as not many have been taken:

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/astronomers-reveal-firs...

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somat 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The EHT is a remarkable achievement in datagathering and collaboration. But I always sort of wonder, a bit of doubt if you will. seeing as the process(simplified nearly to the point of absurdity) is that of building a image generator based off what we think a black hole looks like then feeding it very vague spectral data and getting it to generate an image. isn't that a huge confirmation bias. That is. of course the black hole looks like simulated ones, that is how the generator was programmed to make them.

	▲	dnautics 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		you're not the only one. https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-say-something-is-wro...

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GreenLightGo 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why does it look like it's moving to me?

	▲	Cthulhu_ 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Possibly because it's blurry your brain is trying to do stuff?

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lifestyleguru 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I remember times when the best available photo of Pluto looked like this.

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ButlerianJihad 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is a transcript of a 60-minute podcast. Would you like that TIFF in Zmodem format? Or they could read it out in base64?