Black Hole

[Robert]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/s...e-picture.html

Exciting pic. I have done some calculations, and decided that the centre of a black hole is composed of jam.

[Dave O]

I've heard that you look perpetually thinner going in, so bring on the jam.

[Abby Normal]

The black hole looks amazingly similar to uranus

[Meerkat]

New toaster ordered:-)

[Sam Flynn]

The scale of this achievement, and indeed the black hole it imaged, is staggering. The black hole itself has the equivalent mass of 6.5 billion Suns and is 54 million light-years away, yet modern technology and the collaboration of scientists world-wide has yielded this remarkable result. I read somewhere that obtaining this image was the equivalent of photographing a bagel on the surface of the moon, but they didn't stipulate whether the bagel needed any jam on it

[Harry D]

All I've seen plastered over social media is one of the female scientists getting all the credit for developing the algorithm. In actual fact, it was Andrew Chael who did 95% of the image algorithm. Nevermind the fact that whole thing was a team effort. Unfortunately, people always have to politicise everything, and have overblown the fact one of the team was a woman.

[Joshua Rogan]

Mmmmm, blackberry jam-hole

[Herlock Sholmes]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/s...e-picture.html

Exciting pic. I have done some calculations, and decided that the centre of a black hole is composed of jam.

That’s a ludicrous suggestion Robert. Totally anti-scientific. It’s made of marmalade.

I hope this helps

[Robert]

Thank you Michael, I will ponder that and get back to you on it. John Lennon sang of marmalade skies, so why not?

[Robert]

Michael, you're a genius!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjTvKieN8O4

[Svensson]

All I've seen plastered over social media is one of the female scientists getting all the credit for developing the algorithm. In actual fact, it was Andrew Chael who did 95% of the image algorithm. Nevermind the fact that whole thing was a team effort. Unfortunately, people always have to politicise everything, and have overblown the fact one of the team was a woman.

a bit harsh IMO. There were other women on that team, so not just one.And the reason why she is mentioned in particular is that she was the Lead Developer, not just a regular team member.

As for Chael, he may have laid the groundwork for it (his Harvard website states that he has "pioneered the libraries used" for this) but a quick search did not confirm to me that we was part of the EHT project that certainly applied his theory/libraries to great effect. In short, she actually did it.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Michael, you're a genius!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjTvKieN8O4

I’ve been saying it for years Robert but no one will believe me.