Brian Greene on the first-ever image of a black hole from the Event Horizon Telescope

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  • čas přidán 9. 04. 2019
  • On April 10, 2019, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope announced a result that will change our understanding of the universe: the first-ever image of a black hole's event horizon, the point at which light can no longer escape the black hole's gravitational pull. Using linked telescopes from around the globe, EHT's team measured the ring of photons circling the black hole at the center of galaxy Messier 87, 55 million light-years from Earth. The observations further confirm Einstein's general theory of relativity.
    For more info about how this amazing observation was made, watch our long form program "How Do You Observe a Black Hole? The Event Horizon Telescope on the Verge of a Breakthrough" • How Do You Observe a B...
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  • @thejesuschrist
    @thejesuschrist Před 5 lety +39

    What an amazing time to be alive! It feels like we got LIGO's evidence for gravitational waves just yesterday, now THIS! GLORIOUS! Science!!!!!

  • @Fourthson100
    @Fourthson100 Před 5 lety +71

    This achievement shows what humanity can do if we work together in common purpose. A great day to be remembered!

    • @Fourthson100
      @Fourthson100 Před 5 lety

      @Odell Mateo I'm not quite that cynical. Besides our salvation lies in the future not the past. To see beyond the petty squabbles and prejudices that spawned in the so-called "good old days"!

  • @gwyn.
    @gwyn. Před 5 lety +1059

    Only if Stephen Hawking could live just a bit longer to witness this extraordinary achievement
    Edit: Just ignore the troll/hate comments, no point replying to.
    We're simply here to celebrate one of mankind's greatest scientific achievements. These scientists and engineers are the frontiers of Humanity, as a Human, I am thrilled to see this kind of discoveries that widens our understanding of the universe we're living in.

    • @tlew1588
      @tlew1588 Před 5 lety +7

      If you believe that guy we saw for the last 30 years was actually him.

    • @xXRickTrolledXx
      @xXRickTrolledXx Před 5 lety +15

      And you have reason to believe otherwise?

    • @Steve-vl5mg
      @Steve-vl5mg Před 5 lety +18

      Hawking's is aware ..he always was..

    • @DimoB8
      @DimoB8 Před 5 lety +6

      They have been preparing this age for a while, he hopefully might have gotten a look at an early version.

    • @DimoB8
      @DimoB8 Před 5 lety +27

      @Pulling the Strings uncalled for!

  • @AlphaFoxDelta
    @AlphaFoxDelta Před 5 lety +516

    This is amazing, I never honestly thought we'd get a real (not simulated) picture of a black hole. I'm blown away

    • @PharaohFluidity
      @PharaohFluidity Před 5 lety +11

      well... you'll notice how everyone is calling it an "image" and not a picture.

    • @masoudppr2
      @masoudppr2 Před 5 lety +49

      @@ImpGimp well all images that u take with ur phone is also binary so it dosnt really matter.

    • @Q_QQ_Q
      @Q_QQ_Q Před 5 lety +23

      @Alexander Mester LOL all images are generated like that lol .

    • @orlovsskibet
      @orlovsskibet Před 5 lety +10

      @@ImpGimp they are not really much different...

    • @masoudppr2
      @masoudppr2 Před 5 lety +15

      @@ImpGimp for making a photo we need binary data, so I don't think it matters if the binary data comes from radio or light it self

  • @boogieboss
    @boogieboss Před 5 lety +87

    How poetic Carl Sagan would be about this picture.

    • @boogieboss
      @boogieboss Před 5 lety

      Jason Gallant
      Sorry 😅

    • @ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid
      @ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid Před 5 lety +2

      Then again, Carl Sagan was poetic about everything.
      He could move people to tears simply describing the yuge fart I just ripped.

  • @photon2724
    @photon2724 Před 5 lety +897

    einstein my man. i knew you wouldn't let me down dawg.

    • @tlew1588
      @tlew1588 Před 5 lety +24

      Einstein, G'd up from the feet up.

    • @om5621
      @om5621 Před 5 lety +26

      @IBHANAN M But Jesus won't tell us anything, that's why we need to do science

    • @suborgtfo.4433
      @suborgtfo.4433 Před 5 lety +1

      @@om5621 who knows?

    • @RenzoM2811
      @RenzoM2811 Před 5 lety +7

      @@suborgtfo.4433 Until Jesus decides to tell us something, we do.

    • @alexv5581
      @alexv5581 Před 5 lety +30

      @IBHANAN M Explain to me why do you believe in such a man? A bible was written by a human, with philosophical insights. Back then when intellectual freedom was restricted there was an accepted fact about reality. Fast forward and all of those ancient "facts" have been crushed by actual facts. Scientific literacy is what will save our race not some fairy tale.

  • @uFELLA
    @uFELLA Před 5 lety +36

    Thank you Professor Greene! To clarify for some folks who left comments, technically we cannot see the black hole or even the event horizon. What we see as the dark area within the luminous ring is the "shadow" of the black hole. And that shadow, if the black hole were not spinning, has a diameter (from our perspective) that is 2.6x larger than that of the event horizon, and larger still than the black hole itself, but tracks the shape of both in this case. Although we know the M87 black hole is spinning, the idea remains the same, i.e., the shadow we see is larger than the event horizon and the black hole and is the result of seeing those photons that managed to go around the event horizon and reach our telescopes. As i understand it.

  • @aktarzaman4013
    @aktarzaman4013 Před 5 lety +123

    Einstein is still THE BOSS...

    • @dmcq7271
      @dmcq7271 Před 5 lety

      Look up toroidal plasmoid, you will find out that the image supports that theory much more than the Black Hole Theory.

    • @maxwellsequation4887
      @maxwellsequation4887 Před 3 lety

      Its just begun
      He is GOD

    • @alistairwatt8767
      @alistairwatt8767 Před 2 lety

      he was a man many years beyond his own time, and perhaps even our own

  • @PuddiPanda
    @PuddiPanda Před 5 lety +121

    Black Hole: "I'm ready for my closeup!"
    *55 million years later*
    Black Hole: "Best. Photo. Ever!!!" :)

    • @rob-benreeshofklimaat888
      @rob-benreeshofklimaat888 Před 5 lety +11

      Who is saying, that we are the only one looking ? Plus it took 55 millions years for that light to reach us, so for the black hole to see, that we saw his picture.. Would take another 55 millions years.

    • @PsyQoBoy
      @PsyQoBoy Před 5 lety +1

      I don't think I can stand still enough for 55 million years for a photo shoot. Kudos to you Mr. black hole.

    • @beardandflipflops5424
      @beardandflipflops5424 Před 5 lety

      It's not a photo

    • @krishnakabrawala1693
      @krishnakabrawala1693 Před 4 lety

      @@PsyQoBoy it doesn't need to stand still for 55 million years. We don't even know if it's out there anymore. We don't even know the next stage of any blackhole, so we can't predict it or theories it.

  • @CNM3
    @CNM3 Před 5 lety +107

    Congrats Event Horizon Team and the dedicated scientists that pulled this off👍👍

    • @dmcq7271
      @dmcq7271 Před 5 lety

      Look up toroidal plasmoid, you will find out that the image supports that theory much more than the Black Hole Theory. Most people don't even know that there is serious opposition to that idea.

  • @dongurudebro4579
    @dongurudebro4579 Před 5 lety +475

    What an astonishing achievement of mankind!
    It just makes me sad that Stephen Hawking and so many other great scientist didn't get to see this.

    • @faarsight
      @faarsight Před 5 lety +24

      Man, he was so close too.

    • @ManahManah77
      @ManahManah77 Před 5 lety +8

      I'm not one to talk about the afterlife, but if there is one, he's there now and trust me, he's got a much closer view.

    • @ShvBhuiyan
      @ShvBhuiyan Před 5 lety +3

      @@ManahManah77 When you die...U have entered black hole for infinite time!!

    • @trader025
      @trader025 Před 5 lety +9

      @If you laugh you sub! It isnt CGI you idiot and all imagery at those distances are fuzzy from ground based telescopes radio or optic.

    • @sonsofthunderd.p7401
      @sonsofthunderd.p7401 Před 5 lety

      Fetter Koch agree. Even michio kaku said "all of this are all in hmy mind" 🤣 its all just "science" fiction for grown ups.

  • @ericgraham8150
    @ericgraham8150 Před 5 lety +4

    There seems to be a lot of confusion what it means to say something is in visible light or that it's in radio waves. I think people get hung up on the vocabulary, which makes these all seem like different things. All of these things are part of what is called the "Electromagnetic Spectrum." The EM spectrum is like a rainbow which starts at Gamma Rays on one end, moves through X-Rays, Ultraviolet, then Infrared, and then as the frequency of the EM waves get shorter, it moves into microwaves and radio waves, UHF, VHF (where tv signal live) and so on. What we happen to call "light" is a small section of this frequency band that are eyes are sensitive too. There are animals that are sensitive to other parts of this spectrum. The important thing to remember is that all these things are Electromagnetic waves, and so you can use technology that is senstive to different parts of the spectrum and will take an image that "moves" the target object to a part of the spectrum that we can see, the visible light part. This blackhole image was taken with radiowaves, and thus its a very real picture, just as real as a picture that you may take with your camera phone. Hope this helps.

  • @jondubai8590
    @jondubai8590 Před 5 lety +41

    The very first person to put forward the idea of a Black Hole was John Mitchell (1724-1793) his paper on the subject was read by Henry Cavendish to the Royal Society in 1783.

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu Před 5 lety +4

      john wheeler coined the term and soundgarden popularized it

    • @spnhm34
      @spnhm34 Před 5 lety

      John Michell

    • @denniscarroll3164
      @denniscarroll3164 Před 5 lety

      Too bad the right equations weren't there yet to really bring it home.

    • @itheuserfirst3186
      @itheuserfirst3186 Před 4 lety +1

      Not really. He asked the question what if a star was so large that light could not escape into space. A black hole is the opposite. It's the collapse of a star into a dense area. But he did pose the idea about what if light couldn't escape the pull of gravity.

  • @omaraziz8280
    @omaraziz8280 Před 5 lety +10

    Wow! What a tremendous achievement. Almost a 100 years of labor. 👏🏻

  • @poonamkulung7042
    @poonamkulung7042 Před 5 lety +20

    Einstein 's theory never cease s to surprise us.

    • @dmcq7271
      @dmcq7271 Před 5 lety

      Better you listen to physicist Wal Thornhil instead. Look up toroidal plasmoid, you will find out that the image supports that theory much more than the Black Hole Theory. Most people don't even know that there is serious opposition to that idea. Einstein even questioned his own ideas at the end of his life.

  • @TrueMexico
    @TrueMexico Před 5 lety +368

    I like Brian Greene but I'm waiting for Anton's video on the photo. Hello wonderful person.

    • @YnseSchaap
      @YnseSchaap Před 5 lety +7

      Same here 😁

    • @danielblanco208
      @danielblanco208 Před 5 lety +2

      Tio Paul. No sabía que te apasionara la astronomía. Es increíble la imagen ¿no es cierto?

    • @iyaramonk
      @iyaramonk Před 5 lety +5

      Who's Anton?

    • @kasuha
      @kasuha Před 5 lety +1

      Actually, I actually doubt he'll actually have an essentially different image.

    • @domcasmurro2417
      @domcasmurro2417 Před 5 lety +3

      Me too. I'm also waiting Anton to explain why he said it would be Sagitarius A...

  • @TheExoplanetsChannel
    @TheExoplanetsChannel Před 5 lety +30

    Thank you for making history !

  • @78g476
    @78g476 Před 5 lety +7

    We're living in one of the most amazing times in human history.

  • @mydogbrian4814
    @mydogbrian4814 Před 5 lety +2

    - Always love Brian Green's spin on physics. Keep it up guy!

  • @adithya9706
    @adithya9706 Před 5 lety

    Thank you scientists, engineers and every single person who contributed to this picture. Thank you so much❤️

  • @lolmaorofl8456
    @lolmaorofl8456 Před 5 lety +171

    damn, einstein did it again with his theory.

    • @aziouss2863
      @aziouss2863 Před 5 lety +32

      he wrote this shit 100 years ago
      and it is like humanity is still doing homework assingment he left

    • @IIIO000
      @IIIO000 Před 5 lety +8

      Most people have no clue how many extraordinary theories he did. Einstein, Planck, and maybe Da Vinci (not really comparable) might be the most genius persons we know that existed. Sometimes I think they must have been time travelers ^^ Einstein did not even get the nobel price for one of his theories of relativity btw. He revolutionized physics even before. When he lived, most physicians couldn't believe that his theory of relativity might be correct, and some people even laughed at his theories. But 100 years later he is proven right again. Just for a comparison, Hawking, who is said to be one of the smartest persons who lived after Einstein, did some theories too and even some just to prove Einstein wrong. And Hawking didn't even create his theories alone like Einstein, and had completely better equipment (like a pc!!!!), and all of the theories Hawking did against Einstein were proven clearly wrong in experiments and Einstein always right. It is not from this earth how Einstein, Schwarzschild, Planck and some others were able to understand the reality/universe so good just by imagination. A shame German jews like Einstein were almost all killed. I don't want to imagine where we would be now when they survived. We would probably have Star Wars in RL or something.

    • @etishbite456
      @etishbite456 Před 5 lety +2

      While Einstein was undoubtedly a Brilliant man IMO Nikola Tesla was more Brilliant. Who would you rather have on your scientific team if they were alive today? Einstein a mathematician genius or Nikola Tesla a mathematician genius and an inventor that built working products that we still use today? Nikola Tesla all day, but that is just my opinion Cheers.

    • @IIIO000
      @IIIO000 Před 5 lety +7

      @@etishbite456 No. You have a more popular opinion than you think btw. If you know all this stuff detailed like me and have studied physics like me, you would know that Tesla was a great man, but not even close to what Einstein did. Tesla was not really a genius, he was just very fascinated by electricity and did everything he could try'n error-like to achieve pretty basic stuff. He was still kinda 'genius' in a way cause he somehow achieved it, but the only reason he achieved it was actually because he just tried everything out. I have read your opinion a lot in the net also because it is said that when Einstein was asked how he feels as the smartest person, he said I don't know, ask Tesla. I don't know if that rrally happened, but if, Einstein said that because: 1. Almost all people who are genius are expected to say something like that 2. Einstein already got a nobel prize at this time, while Tesla also deserved one or two prizes, so Einstein wanted to give Tesla attention cause he deserved more attention than he had at this time 3. Tesla did not had a lot of money and was even very poor, which is not at all fair. Even though Tesla did not make the smartest finance moves, he deserved so much more than he had at this time, also because he always did it for the people and his love for science, and not only to become rich or famous. - So overall these are the reasons why I would also give Tesla the attention he deserved like Einstein did. Einstein had already almost too much attention, which makes pressure which is always bad. I think Tesla deserved 3 Nobel prices, Einstein 5. And btw although Einstein did all this phenomenonal work and outsmarted physicians around the world in all aspects, he did also invent a few things, e.g. his own way if fridge. But without Einsteins theories, these things would not have been possible to be invented : - TV - GPS - everything about nuclears (e.g.weapon, electricity), - solar cells, - most nano electric things, - and more to come. So Einstein was a real mastermind, while Tesla was a very ambitious man who achieved rather simple/ small things which had luckily a lot of impact for our everyday life. E.g. if you want to measure their inventions with a Turing test: A pretty simple PC would be able to achieve Tesla's inventions, but even the best pc, even with a.i. would not be able to come to Einsteins theories, and maybe this will never be possible - but who knows. But imo it is very clear that Einstein is a way bigger mastermind than most people, also Tesla. 'Even' Turing is smarter than Tesla imo, and a lot of other physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists too.

    • @TruthisinChrist2746
      @TruthisinChrist2746 Před 5 lety +2

      Einstein was a shill he mocked the world with his “all mocking tongue”.
      Think he was just being cute for the camera think again.
      Don’t be so easily fooled

  • @user-ut7wi1if9q
    @user-ut7wi1if9q Před 5 lety +65

    What a time to be alive! so many great and intelligent scientists working on all of these great projects hopefully one day I’ll be one of them

    • @iuliuscezarvi8231
      @iuliuscezarvi8231 Před 5 lety +2

      God damn, i love people like you, i m proud of you dude

    • @thekububeach
      @thekububeach Před 5 lety +1

      Maybe not. If you have the talent and motivation to be like them, you wouldn’t waste your time watching youtube or browsing internet. They are hard working people not a dreamer.

    • @Apj_Apj
      @Apj_Apj Před 5 lety

      All the very best bro

    • @user-ut7wi1if9q
      @user-ut7wi1if9q Před 5 lety +2

      thekububeach chill out bruh it’s not that deep, btw internet is one of the greatest outlets ever created and we’re extremely privileged to have access to all human knowledge with a one second click, watching a video of brian greene talking about one of the greatest events of human evolution is absolutely not a waste of time at least not in my standards since that is sort of subjective so I don’t what u were tryna imply there, i don’t think that i need to point out that ure commenting in here so ure doing the same as me also even hardworking ppl do “time wasting” stuff they’re not machines ppl seek out pleasure so I don’t know where u got ur impression of hardworking scientists from

    • @thekububeach
      @thekububeach Před 5 lety

      Ram I’m just trying to say that you will not be one of those scientiests. That’s it. One of the evidence is the way you write. You can’t even write properly and you still hope you will be one of them? It’s not going to happen. Just accept that. Come back and prove me wrong once you have achieved that. But I wouldn’t hold my breath.

  • @afshinsadeghi8074
    @afshinsadeghi8074 Před 5 lety

    Brian I was waiting for your statement. as always it is put the best way possible. thanks to all the people behind this channel 👍🏼

  • @LilyMyLolita
    @LilyMyLolita Před 5 lety

    The first time I saw Brian Greene (in Elegant Universe) he was still a young lad. Thank you, Brian, for all the wonderful documentaries you presented to us!

  • @adarshbhagirutty675
    @adarshbhagirutty675 Před 5 lety +149

    Finally we got that image!

    • @Nuclearcx
      @Nuclearcx Před 5 lety +18

      Next time remember to use focus ^^

    • @RoGameReview
      @RoGameReview Před 5 lety +15

      @@Nuclearcx try to focus an apple that is on the moon with a regular telephoto lens that is the shit they had to deal with

    • @wretepstube
      @wretepstube Před 5 lety +5

      And what are you goin'to do with it? Stare at it, make it bigger or share it with mankind?

    • @braydenpanepinto6649
      @braydenpanepinto6649 Před 5 lety +1

      Eastern Traveller he was joking bro relax

    • @digbysirchickentf2315
      @digbysirchickentf2315 Před 5 lety +3

      Just CG, not a photo, an image generated by 100% biased AI algorithm.

  • @lemontrade8568
    @lemontrade8568 Před 5 lety +3

    Wait, since it's 50 million light years away, it took 50 million years to the light of the black hole photo light to arrive on the camera which means that the black hole photo shows how the hole was 50 million years ago!

  • @David-bg3xc
    @David-bg3xc Před 5 lety

    It’s crazy I never thought I’d love to see this moment. I’m not a physicist but I appreciate everything about it and this is something that is truly amazing

  • @ppoppicks
    @ppoppicks Před 5 lety +62

    M87 is impressive but I'm Looking forward to seeing Sagittarius A*

    • @averma32
      @averma32 Před 5 lety +2

      The object around it are too dynamic to get a clear image at this time.

    • @ppoppicks
      @ppoppicks Před 5 lety +2

      @@averma32 reports also indicate that its relativistic jets are pointed in the direction of our solar system. That should corroborate what you have highlighted.

    • @timnewth2416
      @timnewth2416 Před 5 lety

      The galaxy is in the way. I was wrong.

    • @Lange007
      @Lange007 Před 5 lety

      I'm pretty sure both pictures were released

    • @my3dviews
      @my3dviews Před 5 lety +3

      ​@@Lange007 No. The one of Sagittarius A* was a simulation. Only the one of M87 was an actual image of a black hole.

  • @RaysAstrophotography
    @RaysAstrophotography Před 5 lety +58

    Thanks Brian Greene for the commentary

  • @mattkelly2004
    @mattkelly2004 Před 5 lety +73

    I wonder what the greats would say Einstein, Hawking, all of them???

    • @reallyme3573
      @reallyme3573 Před 5 lety

      Newton would say that it would fall.

    • @Ndstars1
      @Ndstars1 Před 5 lety

      They'd probably say that mathematics doesn't lie.

    • @BWong1234
      @BWong1234 Před 5 lety

      Is laughable you equate Hawking to Einstein. The difference is as big as the Cosmo.

    • @Jay-jb2vr
      @Jay-jb2vr Před 5 lety

      Its the quantum realm

    • @odiewan67
      @odiewan67 Před 5 lety

      Einstein to the teacher who said he wound't amount to much "Neener neener neener"

  • @ramachandrabhakta4200
    @ramachandrabhakta4200 Před 5 lety

    Superb graphics for explaining the black holes. Thanks team Brian Greene.

  • @cleversonsutil4495
    @cleversonsutil4495 Před 5 lety

    So far the best explanation of this achievement!!

  • @hardrock342
    @hardrock342 Před 5 lety +18

    Einstein was right once again.

  • @catmom2509
    @catmom2509 Před 5 lety +3

    This may appear to just be a fuzzy image of a black hole. But it is much more than that. It is not only the first time we have been able to get a direct image of a black hole, but it is mindblowing when you see the evidence that light is being bent by gravity of the black hole and the dark region in the middle is the area beyond the event horizon where no light or matter can escape.

    • @javierharth3647
      @javierharth3647 Před 5 lety

      If no light can escape it, what's that Ray emanating in both directions from the center of the black hole, as if it existed on a plane, one can see in other photographs?

  • @niharikapawar4930
    @niharikapawar4930 Před 5 lety

    Congratulations to all scientists. It is really a very proud moment for all of us.

  • @odiewan67
    @odiewan67 Před 5 lety

    Oh, man. I am so glad to be alive to see this.

  • @ross-carlson
    @ross-carlson Před 5 lety +4

    Am I the only one that got chill bumps and teared up when they first saw the picture? Science is amazing!!!

  • @JacobHayden911
    @JacobHayden911 Před 5 lety +3

    YES! Heard about this. Excited!!

  • @sabymondal
    @sabymondal Před 5 lety

    I always love Brian Greene's presentation.

  • @cosmosurfer11
    @cosmosurfer11 Před 5 lety

    This is one of the greatest photograph ever. Great achievement!!

  • @peterbobiles6050
    @peterbobiles6050 Před 5 lety +29

    Blackhole photograph in 240p. Years later we’ll have 1080p or more. Keep the faith

  • @nikejuntalaroc460
    @nikejuntalaroc460 Před 5 lety +24

    Imagine Einstein's with today's technology.

    • @sythlorde
      @sythlorde Před 5 lety

      He would be like ninja or some other huge gamer. this is the mentality that he would have in this given reality. in the reality where einstein is alive with todays technology he is still rather young. and rubber has not been invented yet, but they have empathy cards, which are really cool ways of looking into other peoples flaws and weaknesses... sorry im a time jumper I see these things. to come see some of my powers in this reality, i posted a new vid demonstration them. telekinetics, spirit summonings, all demo and plus my back to back lotto wins in nyc, come see. things like my vid have never been seen on this planet before, like the black hole

    • @Vaith
      @Vaith Před 5 lety +1

      @@sythlorde How dare you compare Einstein to Ninja... Also Instead of spending all that time pretending your fantasy is reality maybe just write a fiction novel series or something.

    • @chenlevy3773
      @chenlevy3773 Před 5 lety +1

      #
      NikeJunTalaroc he doesn't need technology. what we see in simulations, videos , he visualizes it with his brain.

    • @bitcodexx
      @bitcodexx Před 5 lety +2

      we have today's technology thanks to Einstein

    • @sythlorde
      @sythlorde Před 5 lety

      @@Vaith Yes, thats included as well on my channel.... The journey thorough hell is spread across all my videos, as well as me showing some of my powers and using them on people like you. I once touched a piece of paper that someone like you touched. I then told them to close their eyes and in 20 or so seconds they vomited and blood issued from their nose. I can show you something like this too, or do it to you in person in new york... Would you like to be in my next video? I would like the world to know that I dont really like playing games, or liars... and by the time I show my greatest movement they will be ready to nail me to a damn cross... im so sick of you people with no faith
      yet others have waited their whole lives to see something like what I am doing on my channel.
      If i meet you in new york, and touch your hand and take your eyesight away from you... can you vlog it or post it on youtube? I really want to do this to you, I have done it before but not on camera, what I do is really hard to capture on camera but I have clips of that too! My vids go all over the world I speak many languages.
      come see

  • @BardiXOfficial
    @BardiXOfficial Před 5 lety

    I always thought it would take decades to see something like this, I guess I should open my mind more, What a great achievement!

  • @RonnieD1970
    @RonnieD1970 Před 5 lety

    Another amazing game changing event. Like the Deep Field pictures impact this amazing blackhole photo is an incredible testament to collective scientific achievement.

  • @somaiyahhafeez8457
    @somaiyahhafeez8457 Před 5 lety +6

    WHAT AN INCREDIBLE ACHIEVEMENT. WHAT AN AMAZING DAY TO BE ALIVE.

  • @ThirdSpectrum
    @ThirdSpectrum Před 5 lety +72

    I would really love to see an interview with Kip Thorne on this. He must be very interested by this.

    • @dougmphilly
      @dougmphilly Před 5 lety +1

      ThirdSpectrum he and Christopher Nolan so nailed it.

    • @dougmphilly
      @dougmphilly Před 5 lety

      Manny Santiago I am well aware that Nolan is a film director and kip is a theoretical physicist. Nolan deserves props for making interstellar as scientifically correct as possible. He was able to bring kip’s equations to the screen. The team had to feel so proud yesterday.

  • @terrywbreedlove
    @terrywbreedlove Před 5 lety

    We are so lucky to see this a part of science history.

  • @peezer77
    @peezer77 Před 5 lety +1

    This is the greatest discovery in space exploration to date! Now I really can’t wait till JWST is in orbit and fully operational. Great job scientists👍🏽

  • @thomasho1761
    @thomasho1761 Před 5 lety +89

    Murph! Don't let me leave Murph!

  • @mychevysparkevdidntcatchfi1489

    It's the Electrical Engineer, Katie Bouman, that was instrumental in making this image possible. Science is just a pipe dream without engineers.

  • @nikhilchandra6109
    @nikhilchandra6109 Před 5 lety

    You are one of the best story tellers brain .... Love your approach...

  • @fanisattard5265
    @fanisattard5265 Před 4 lety

    I'm not a Physicist but I really like these things out there! Modern physics teaches us that gravity is not some tractive force, it simply results from the forced movement of bodies onto geodesics, as created by the distortion of space. We let something out of our hands and it falls down as it follows the course of an invisible "slide" that surrounds us. The slide begins where the distortion of space begins and ends at the center of the Earth. It has a funnel shape so ... The slope of the slide will make the object fall down accelerating accordingly. If an object on any planet moves from the surface upwards at an initial velocity equal to the escape velocity then it can climb the "slide" until it escapes from the funnel. In the case of the black hole, however, the distortion is such that the slide is rather convex like an elliptical / circular disk so that even the light is rotated inside the convex slide, never able to escape. If the slide had not been convex, then we would have seen the light sometime ... because there is no force preventing it from escaping ... it is probably the shape of the slide!

  • @Pheonix_7
    @Pheonix_7 Před 5 lety +4

    Probably the depiction in Interstellar was really accurate upto an extent. It's truly wonderful!

  • @reng7777
    @reng7777 Před 5 lety +10

    It is amazing to belive that something that came out from the imagination ,Became true!!!

    • @reng7777
      @reng7777 Před 5 lety

      @John Smith i just don´t agree, since it was something that you have never see before(until now) ... then what else could have been? it is true that came out from math calculations but it was an aidea of something that was nver seen before ...

    • @reng7777
      @reng7777 Před 5 lety

      @John Smith Js JJAJA i will not waste my time with u !!

    • @Hitzel
      @Hitzel Před 5 lety +1

      @John Smith I think you are misunderstanding his English ─ I think he was trying to say that an image of a black hole could only be imagined before this picture.

  • @physicsphilosophy2492
    @physicsphilosophy2492 Před 5 lety

    I'm your huge fan sir. Thanks for writing wonderful books on string theory. Hats off to you 😊

  • @ashikrevi
    @ashikrevi Před 5 lety

    This is indeed a major breakthrough, I feel so much happy and yet something strange is pulling me back.
    We are missing something critical here, something so important that we haven't been paying much attention to.
    I think it's only a matter of matter that we would sure appreciate to be in the limelight soon.

  • @WestOfEarth
    @WestOfEarth Před 5 lety +8

    Here we are, all of us, experiencing this great human achievement. And yet throughout the world, we allow ourselves to be manipulated by petty nationalism, by border conflicts, and by those who would pit us one against the other.

    • @francisgodinho9077
      @francisgodinho9077 Před 5 lety

      WestOfEarth. Every Human is born free of hate. The first thing every Child does is to smile. Then Humans tells the Child do not mix with those people. They are cursed by Allah to hell. Yes, the smiling child is manipulated, brainwashed to hate "pit us one against the other." Today, Friday, all Iranian come out after praying to Allah cursing "death to Amrika, death to Juice." May Allah curse them to hell.

    • @francisgodinho9077
      @francisgodinho9077 Před 5 lety +1

      I forget to laugh at people who spent their whole life hating others. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. In Iran there are Mullahs. In Israel there are Palestinian. In America you have Democrats. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

    • @mrss3058
      @mrss3058 Před 5 lety

      yes but the thing is there is only one universe and one power ...and the religions have nothing to do with injustice and hatred on earth. its our fear! imagine if u had a religion that tells u to respect and help each other ...and explore the world and sets limits so we dont destroy ourself ...every freedom is the restriction of others right. so what if this religion is islam. and what if science was already foretold in the quran? all what i see is confirmation. there is only one god.

  • @burke615
    @burke615 Před 5 lety +23

    For the two of you who haven't seen it, Veritasium had a really good description (with physical model) as to why a brighter and less bright side appears on the ring of light around the black hole. watch?v=zUyH3XhpLTo

  • @kaarlimakela3413
    @kaarlimakela3413 Před 5 lety

    Thrilling, all we can see now!

  • @greekpapi
    @greekpapi Před 5 lety

    This is truly a remarkable achievement!!!

  • @ayushbhagat287
    @ayushbhagat287 Před 5 lety +26

    Isn’t this pic from the movie The lord of the Rings? Saurons’ death scene..

  • @alkashie9174
    @alkashie9174 Před 5 lety +6

    i'm not astro enthusiast , but i almost cried at the end , i wad super proud .

  • @thegrimcritic5494
    @thegrimcritic5494 Před 3 lety +1

    Honestly, I don’t think people are really grasping exactly what this means for physics as we know it. This means that there are openings in our reality; that there are actually corridors boring through our extant universe into... something else. That means portals are possible. Wormholes are possible. FTL travel, then... is also possible. The implications this has on what future humans are capable of doing is honestly staggering.

  • @VijayKumar-or4rx
    @VijayKumar-or4rx Před 5 lety

    It's a great achievement by scientist,now we would be able to understand much more about black hole

  • @riez9144
    @riez9144 Před 5 lety +8

    The next that will discover and proved is Einstein wormhole (rosen bridge) theory

  • @rannaghoremoumita926
    @rannaghoremoumita926 Před 5 lety +3

    If Einstein would be here to see this!

  • @jordhuga271
    @jordhuga271 Před 5 lety

    Truly an amazing time to be alive.

  • @SassyBratt1
    @SassyBratt1 Před 5 lety

    For me the timing of this is really eerie. 100% no word of a lie when I tell you this April 10, 2019. This morning when I woke up there was a symbol on my right inside upper wrist 'pink color' of that same black hole. Anyone else have this????

  • @champions4122
    @champions4122 Před 5 lety +11

    This is golden dream of all science lovers and now it is achieved by us .

    • @JB52520
      @JB52520 Před 5 lety

      Science isn't done yet. We still haven't reproduced consciousness in a machine.

  • @Jillydisco
    @Jillydisco Před 5 lety +3

    IM CRYING THANK YOU EINSTEIN

  • @nertoni
    @nertoni Před 5 lety

    It is unbelievable how far we have come, not only to describe mathematically, but also to observe the black hole and the effects of gravity on nearby stars. Karl Schwarzschild, Einstein and Hawking would be thrilled to see this breathtaking image of the black hole.

  • @memoacuna3642
    @memoacuna3642 Před 5 lety

    Woooo!! Black hole pictures!!! So dope!!!

  • @thomass.586
    @thomass.586 Před 5 lety +3

    Alright very nice, so another one for Albert E.! But where is the photo of our galaxy's BH, Sagittarius A*? The one they released rules over 55 million light years distant galaxy Messier 87

    • @Sathish_12
      @Sathish_12 Před 5 lety

      We r inside the milky way so we could not snap a picture of it

    • @thomass.586
      @thomass.586 Před 5 lety +1

      I watched the whole press conference and in the Q&A they said they would release their picture of Sag.A* soon - hopefully. In any case they are working on it.

  • @Izzy-qf1do
    @Izzy-qf1do Před 5 lety +16

    My wallet has a black hole.

  • @thatdutchguy2882
    @thatdutchguy2882 Před 5 lety

    Tnx ESA for the funding of this amazing project.

  • @RomanAKozak
    @RomanAKozak Před 5 lety

    Amazing presentation and speaking skills. Great video!

  • @antronixful
    @antronixful Před 5 lety +64

    and still people thinking that earth is flat xd

    • @stranger_danger1900
      @stranger_danger1900 Před 5 lety +13

      There will always be stupid people

    • @jonathanwalther
      @jonathanwalther Před 5 lety +3

      Fascinating! And in a certain sense the stupidity of some people is equally amazing.

    • @russlogan181
      @russlogan181 Před 5 lety +1

      A light bulb with a thumb blocking part of it , out of focus impresses you does it. I think even NASA is surprised at what they can sell you gullible morons

    • @user-Void-Star
      @user-Void-Star Před 5 lety +1

      Earth still flat in 2d

    • @akashbyju844
      @akashbyju844 Před 5 lety +2

      @@russlogan181 Light bulbs and thumbs have been around for a long time bruh. Why wait till 2019 to get a black hole image using them then??

  • @KeymoEmbryoSagan
    @KeymoEmbryoSagan Před 5 lety +98

    Einstein gets all the credit, but no one does it alone.
    He didn't believe in blackholes when the idea was FIRST proposed, others contributed to the idea of blackholes before Einsteins time, can you name some of them? ;)

    • @raunakgiri21
      @raunakgiri21 Před 5 lety +11

      Ancient Indian philosophers

    • @nevergonnagiveyouup5239
      @nevergonnagiveyouup5239 Před 5 lety +39

      1.Pierre-Simon Laplace (French mathematician)
      2.Karl Schwarzschild (German physicist)
      3.John Archibald Wheeler (American physicist)
      4.Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Indian American astrophysicist/mathematician)
      5.Julius Robert Oppenheimer (American theoretical physicist)
      6.Roy Kerr (New Zealand mathematician)
      7.Stephen William Hawking (English theoretical physicist, cosmologist)
      8.Roger Penrose (English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science)
      9.Kip Thorne (American theoretical physicist)
      Did i forget someone

    • @nosequeponeraqui8741
      @nosequeponeraqui8741 Před 5 lety +2

      Laplace, Schwarzschild, Chandrasekhar, Oppenheimer, Snyder, Hawking, Penrose, Landau, Wheeler, Zel'dovich, Thorne...

    • @vampyricon7026
      @vampyricon7026 Před 5 lety +4

      I'd say Chandrasekhar should be the first one that springs to mind.

    • @gameninja4056
      @gameninja4056 Před 5 lety +4

      @@raunakgiri21 Is not this a big claim only a single indian astrologist thought about it and you are bringing all ancient indian philosophers in this context.

  • @littlesheeple6171
    @littlesheeple6171 Před 5 lety +1

    This video was beautiful.

  • @invademars420
    @invademars420 Před 5 lety +1

    *It will led to a turning point in history of **_astronomy_** 🔥..*

  • @domcasmurro2417
    @domcasmurro2417 Před 5 lety +3

    Its possible do the same with Sagitarius A?

    • @kobaka
      @kobaka Před 5 lety

      Yes, it's actually possible, the angular size of Sagittarius A should be about four time bigger for us. I don't understand why they've chosen M87's SMBH for a first photo. Maybe due to the fact that Sgr A is way less active and we couldn't see the light ring around the BH.

    • @domcasmurro2417
      @domcasmurro2417 Před 5 lety

      @@kobakaMaybe Sagirarius A is not visible for all those observatories in both hemispheres at same time.

    • @finn8982
      @finn8982 Před 5 lety +1

      Sagittarius A is actually way harder to measure because there are a lot of other stars and gas in between. M87 Galaxy so located that we actually see a top down view of the Galaxy plane so much less things blocking it

    • @maxirhyme
      @maxirhyme Před 5 lety +1

      Between us and Sagittarius A* are massive, dense clouds blocking the view and it is only possible to see it in very low lightwave frequencies like infrared. To get a view of it is really tricky and may take some more time but it will happen!

  • @YnseSchaap
    @YnseSchaap Před 5 lety +7

    First CZcams video that's actually mind blowing 😉

  • @alaagamal1463
    @alaagamal1463 Před 5 lety +2

    It is so amaizing . That is realy realy a great job

  • @Adinga123
    @Adinga123 Před 5 lety

    Professor Greene is such an amazing lecturer..😊👏👏

  • @SradhaSumansskjohn
    @SradhaSumansskjohn Před 5 lety +3

    Einstein The Genius.

  • @saswatsarangi6669
    @saswatsarangi6669 Před 5 lety +3

    All we needed is a Avengers infinity war theme in the background

  • @FinnaBusanut
    @FinnaBusanut Před 5 lety

    Now this is who I want to see talk about this.

  • @poisiion
    @poisiion Před 5 lety +1

    Just imagine watching people of our earth landing on Mars would be how extraordinarily mind boggling

  • @michaelhaykal6548
    @michaelhaykal6548 Před 5 lety +4

    As an avid history enthusiast, my eyes hurt when the video used the British brodie helmet to potray a German soldier

  • @texasdeeslinglead2401
    @texasdeeslinglead2401 Před 5 lety +6

    "Don't throw your money down a hole ."
    Hold my beer...

  • @akintayo
    @akintayo Před 5 lety

    What a wonderful time to be alive

  • @AlejandroLibreros
    @AlejandroLibreros Před 5 lety

    awesome video, awesome achievement

  • @RR-gr1ni
    @RR-gr1ni Před 5 lety +6

    Einstein did it again...😍😘

  • @HighMojo
    @HighMojo Před 5 lety +3

    I'm betting that thousands of desktop backgrounds have been changed to this momentous image. Thumbs up if yours is too.

  • @sameersehgal.90
    @sameersehgal.90 Před 5 lety

    Goosebumps guaranteed

  • @findtail
    @findtail Před 5 lety

    Thankyou Katie and all the women who made this happen

  • @mrsadman13
    @mrsadman13 Před 5 lety +3

    This image is the emblem of the power of human intellect to explore,to discovery and to understand Cosmos

    • @DenverDonate
      @DenverDonate Před 5 lety

      In 10 years someone will come forward and say they photoshopped it and everyone believed it was real. lol

    • @mrsadman13
      @mrsadman13 Před 5 lety

      @@DenverDonate 😄😄,I know it will

  • @sergioortiz8219
    @sergioortiz8219 Před 5 lety +16

    Incredible achievement but still, I'll stick with artists' renderings and Hollywood CGI for now.

    • @AndrewBrownK
      @AndrewBrownK Před 5 lety +5

      Sergio Ortiz you are a certified normie

    • @sergioortiz8219
      @sergioortiz8219 Před 5 lety +3

      @@AndrewBrownK I don't know what that means but I'm sure it's a compliment, so thank you.

    • @phoule76
      @phoule76 Před 5 lety +9

      get a room, you two

    • @eljono1
      @eljono1 Před 5 lety

      @@sergioortiz8219 Damn Normie, you looking cute af

    • @Q_QQ_Q
      @Q_QQ_Q Před 5 lety

      both produce same results because based on scientific data .

  • @derekbreuer8864
    @derekbreuer8864 Před 5 lety

    Great video!

  • @mbabcock111
    @mbabcock111 Před 5 lety

    Oh my, you were so close to witnessing this event Dr. Hawking...