Inside the black hole image that made history | Sheperd Doeleman
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- At the center of a galaxy more than 55 million light-years away, there's a supermassive black hole with the mass of several billion suns. And now, for the first time ever, we can see it. Astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman, head of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, speaks with TED's Chris Anderson about the iconic, first-ever image of a black hole -- and the epic, worldwide effort involved in capturing it.
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"If you want a global telescope, you need a global team." Well said!!
@Science Revolution why don't you ask him then
So I guess that "global" solution was why at any given point it was only 60% functional.
I read your comment just as he said that! Very well said indeed!
Your black circle isn’t even completely black...
One should understand a concept atleast to some extent to raise questions (doubt), does not understanding a concept tantamount to stupidity.There may be many reasons for not understanding, one may not be interested, the person speaking may not have said enough for the mass to understand it.
Remember, that black hole is 57million light years away. Therefore the image we captured was the state of black hole a very loooooong time ago. Damn!!
We're looking into the past! An ancient black hole.
Welcome to the world of astrophysics.
57 million years is kind of nothing on universal scale
you twits will believe anything fed to you.... its hilarious to watch
@@romesho please enlighten us, you're either a religious freak or a normal tin foil one
Let’s just appreciate how well black hole was made in movie “Interstellar “
That movie became my crush. I have watched it 4 times till now still not bored
Because Kip Thorne a nobel laureate in physics was consultant in that movie...watch their interview...
The computer program that simulates how light behaves around a black hole and how we would see it was created for the movie.
They nailed it. What a difficult task, but it did in fact hold up. They almost got it exactly right.
@Pierre LeDouche weren't they able to produce some research papers based on the simulations that they ran to create the black hole?
"The universe told us what to do"
Beautiful.
You misspelled Reptilian Overlords
@@conorkennway3053 you missed school
@@conorkennway3053 they got a plan
@@conorkennway3053 33 Freemasons and bohemian Grove.
@@michaelfleming1223 tahiti?
Imagine his resume, *casually* I have a PhD, I’ve studied and taught physics for decades, oh and I took a picture of a black hole 55 million light years away
But it was combined effort of all those thousands of people, so that resume should consist of 99,999% list of names.
Tuguldur Ankhbayar Do you have any references? I have them in this hard drive
Seems like his resume's character ref section would be enormous 😂
wow you'll believe anything. i know a Nigerian prince who needs to lower his taxable income, if you send him transfer fees he will send you back a million dollars, whats your email address?
@@tuguldurankhbayar768 oh! You must be new here, let me tell you about this guy named et. al.
imagine if stephen hawking live more than at least 1 year, he will be able to see the thing that he's been studying for his whole life.
Steve Wayne I thought his theory with hawking radiation is already acknowledged by physicists?
ツMax there is a difference between being acknowledged and being proven right
@@peepomusictm536 This picture does not prove hawking radiation though
Hawking is crap
Imagine hawking dying and going to a higher dimension, and then communicating with us from the future by way of this black hole?...
Whenever I feel sad for being alone in life, I watch videos about our universe. Calms me down.
Yes, it really really does
Yeah me too
True
True,but it also makes me feel fear and anxious at some point LOL
@@rks4532 you live in the most habitable planets of all so you keep calm ✌️
Son: Why sister is named Rose dad?
Sheperd Doeleman: bcoz your mum loves roses very much
Son: Ohh..thanks dad!!
Shepherd: No problem M87 Black Hole.jpeg
LOL
Exactly like elon's son
Wow this guy really knows how to articulate everything so that I can have just a fundamental grasp on how this image came to existence and how I can really appreciate it's beauty
its not an "image" though
LOL
@@brainxd It IS an image by definition.
@If you laugh you sub! All images are data being rendered.
You're just comparing the means of rendering the data.
This is the exact same concept as a camera taking a picture of your face and rendering it for display.
It's not real!
What all this tells me is that Einstein was really really genius
it tells me that he was wrong
@@Stoffemollan how so?
@@Stoffemollan Ahhh, a random CZcams watcher who negates the theory and knowledge of Einstein. I wonder what your theories and discoveries are. Can you publish your book related to the "Theory of Relativty" or any other books?
@@markpetersenycong8723 I´m more into the electric / plasma universe. Just because "Mr. Onestone" got some things right doesn´t mean he got everything right.
@@Stoffemollan but Einstein got THIS right, so what's your point, Mr. Smart Guy?
He so humbly says " I hope it's inspiring for everyone". Man, any uninspired person should be thrashed. This is why we are here, this is the reason why life exists.
It is indeed amazing. May I suugest the reason we exist is to know the creator of the creation!
@Scott Scotty good question. The argument you would want to look at is the watchmaker analogy/argument. It states that which has a specific design implies an intelligent designer.
@Scott Scotty ahhh! A fellow philosopher. We know a couple things to be true however. Nothing cannot create something. The teleological argument only suggests there is a creator behind the creation. It does not define the creator as perfect in any sense. However, one can believe in an all powerful, all knowing, and all loving deity without it being perfect. No one was at the creation of the universe, so we will only know at the end of our earthly lives if we lived for a purpose or not. Best of luck to you friend!
@Scott Scotty ohh yeah of course lol I have my beliefs but I’ll never push them into someone lol
@@nal909 no. You may not. Keep your fairytale to yourself.
This is so huge. It's a shame news like this isn't front and center, we have coverage on which celebrity got spotted having a bad hair day or who is boning who. This should be household knowledge.
U mean front page like in the newspapers they r holding in the pic at the end..??
Facts 💀
Earth: Dude, I'm lagging
Black Hole: What's your ping?
Earth: 57 million years.
Black Hole: Try resetting your router.
This message chain was performed in the span of 456 million years
@@thecarwasherofshangri-la 228
XD
wow this communication took only 171 million years.
😂 😂 😂
We now have an official image of blackhole but still I don't know who the heck Ted is
😀
:)
Justsaying something this proves you’re a boring person to be around
the final boss
Ted is an architect. 😂
The idea to synchronize so many telescopes, and then have them emulate an earth sized lens is beyond genious. Kudos to all the scientist that are a part of this. I find this more impressive than actually observing a black hole
even if I did not understand half of the things he said ..it just so heartwarming to see that he's trying to explain the complexity dynamics to average ppl like us who are watching it. Right man for the job !
The thing I really like about this, is the fact that we achieved this globally all together, instead of in some kind of a competition against each other. I believe many problems would be solvable if we just did it all together.
These open calls to fascism are getting ridiculous.
I was thinking you could be leader of the NWO
@jonny j Wow, you must be an expert in macro economics! Not in all cases competition is better, and the first photo of a black hole is a great example of that. Competition also brought us more climate change, damage to the environment and other things. But yeah, "competition is the best"...
@@lukasmihara You can still work together and ruin the world's environment. The oil industry, for example.
Look at Tesla, they are working against the media, the entire automotive industry, and the oil industry to modernize the world with new innovations in space technology, advance the human race to clean transportation, and pioneer man and woman from Earth to Mars. This is competition at its best. If Elon Musk is successful in the Mars mission, he will truly be remembered as one of the most important people in the history of the world and the human race. We need more companies that are willing to push the envelop and make the world a better place.
you are right. so, as we clearly don't care about black holes, what about petting that good'ol mother earth? huh? we are intellignt enouh to seek for useless things but, real problems just flow over us like water on an umbrella?? you scientists are fools. get real and prioritize the right things. enough is enough now. Elon if you read this...
Post more talks on cosmology. Thanks
go ahead and study cosmology :) Then welcome to TEDs talks with your presentation
@@TpoJioJio47 sure bro thanks
You can also just lie and people will believe anyway
@WHY YOU ARE AN IDIOT so the fact that the image can be repurposed as cat's eyes means it is fake? I hope your name is purposefully ironic
Vikas Sidhu tedtalks are independently organized, you could totally put one on with enough work
When you fall in a blackhole you found to be in your daughters bookshelf room lol
Yes true🤣
Interstellar reference
Came to find someone comment this. im am not surprised
Tesseract
I really appreciate this guy dumbing it down for us to comprehend what we are looking at. Blackholes are very complex and we still don't know the factors that make up dark matter and the singularity but overall i understand the concept of how they are formed and how we percieve what we are looking at.
Bravo, makes me wish I was more into science in my working life.
This breakthrough is a clear proof that humanity can solve the wildest mysteries of the universe if humanity do it as humanity. Not as americans, russians, asians or so whatever, but as humanity. Only wished sir Stephen Hawkings lived to see this breakthrough. And we also have to thank sir Albert Einstien for his works.
@American Muscle Don't demean the work of great scientists by comparing them to your fairytale god
@@dobhd8320 Its not fairytale, the Bible is a fairytale but not God. God is in everything in this universe, he is inside us as well. But we are so closen minded to the physic and what we see around us, that we forget that we have a spiritual view as well. Now we have to see in order to believe, but in the future we will believe in order to see and that will be the apex of the knowledge of the human race.
Religion is holding us back
Couldn’t agree more with you. I don’t know which movie was but one of the characters said that we must stop thinking as individuals and start thinking as species and that’s so damn true. We need to stop putting barriers between us because at the end of the day we’re all humans.
I'm still waiting for my giant robots to punch giant aliens in the face
If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of cooper screaming; make him stay murph! Don’t go!
Samuel Christian interstellar comment
Samwael Armoush 👍 exactly
Daaang😭 just watched that last week, that movie kills me everytime but it’s probably my favorite.
Interstellar!!!
Great movie
Every once in a while I come back to watch this video. It’s so incredible how we’ve managed to produce the very first image of a black hole
"if I can get wonky for one moment" is my new favourite go-to line
I am so glad that i could witness this in my lifetime. I am always so fascinated by Black holes.
They do not exist. learn here. czcams.com/channels/vHqXK_Hz79tjqRosK4tWYA.html
Ian Fenn with that logic you dont exist either
@@OceanTopInc black holes most definitely exist. if they did not exist, how are we able to learn about them? or even take a photo of one?
me too sometimes i like to stick my finger inside of them or sometimes i just eat them like groceries
Cool very excited
Technically the image of the blackhole is 57 million years old soooo basically we took a picture of a blackhole when the dinosaurs still roamed around
yes !
isnt it not even a photo? it was from radio waves right, you wouldn’t actually see that
@@MnemonicHeadTrip Same as x-ray photos, we don't see it as humans, that's why we build machines that do. We see less than 1% of all the light around us.
It is a photo, the way it was rendered is just different than a "regular" photo. It's compiled from hundreds of terabytes of data
You'd have to actually go more than 57 million years back in time to see dinosaurs (in fact, more than 65 million), when an asteroid is considered to have made impact with Earth's surface, ending almost all forms of life.
57 million light years. Light year is the distance light can travel in a year.
"Where do you end up if you fall into a black hole?"
"Vancouver."
Actually hilarious
yeah I chuckled
I didn’t get it lol
@@sharismad vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
@@Owoowoowo47 I think it's where TED shows are held
@@mohammadazad8350 idk i just googled vancouver lol i did not even know if it was a city
I'm honored just to be alive at the same time as this incredible discovery
It's just crazy how Einstein predicted that image hundred years ago when the time there are no computers
he did not predict a black hole, in fact he was against it. But hey believe and parrot whatever you like
@@gammaraygem any proof tho?
to be more precise: einstein theory was used to predict black holes and support big bang, but initially Einstein rejected both ideas.
he got "overruled" by his peers later in life. Do some research and you´ll find it.
there is a recent lecture by Arkani Hamed,very respected lecturer at the top venues of spacetime ideology... lets see if i can find it...czcams.com/video/qTx98PUW6lE/video.html
he mentions it in this lecture i believe, (great teacher, he makes all that difficult stuff understandable) he also hints that something is very wrong in current cosmology.
he also explains how they now can make a black hole in the lab.
What's even Crazier is that some people believe it...it only exists in the mind and always will. Check out "The "Thunderbolts Project on CZcams, I think you'll change your mind about this Story.
While Einstein was pretty smart, he didn't personally predict EVERYTHING that his theory predicts. He did predict things like bending of light, gravitational time dilation, and correctly explained an anomaly in the orbit of Mercury. Depending on how specific you want to be with the term "black hole" it may have even been predicted BEFORE Einstein.
The first blurry image of Pluto was 23 years ago. Within a half, or maybe even a quarter of a decade from now, we'll see the detailed image of that blurry Black Hole.
I, personally, can't wait for the day we can take pictures of black holes with an iPhone.
varun009 that’s kinda stupid, no offense.
I believe they are already working on a shorter wavelength image which should be higher resolution.
@@simonjohnson6763 Lighten up, buddy.
maybe
Is it just me... or was anyone else feeling weird anxiety every time the scientist was talking, that the interviewer was going interrupt every time he paused?
Absolutely. Terrible interviewer. Maybe he didn't like feeling less smart than Shep so he had to get an edge somehow? Very odd
I hated it! He was just going through his talking points instead of trying to have a real discussion with him. Kills the beauty of dialog among minds. But I guess he had to focus the conversation too and compress it within an allotted time. But it did feel like he wasn't actively listening and appreciating this beautiful scientist's mind.
Yeah you can tell he doesn't understand what it actually is.
Yeah, it was annoying, but at least he waited for very slight pauses. Doeleman is a class act, and brilliant presenter to play off it so well.
Nah, the interviewer asked excellent questions and was very engaging. Also the scientist/astrophysicist was great imo!
I watched this for a second time and understood it a lot more clearly, woah that image is a remarkable and beautiful thing.
We never had a picture of a Black hole before, then 20 countries and more than 200 people join and *Bam* there it is, now imagine if we could join as a specie, how many mysteries could we solve, how many solutions could we find?
Lol yeah right.. if we all do that then who will make weapons? patrol borders? fight wars with hidden agendas? capitalize on resources? Make America great again? blow up churches and mosques? kill blue wales? you keep your wishy washy mysteries to your self Mr David..
not much, not without a plan or well-defined goals, a picture of a black hole is fine, but the definitions we are using are childish at best.
@Austin DowningI wasn't only talking about trump.
Austin Downing from oneness perspective it is kind of evil..
Austin Downing ok
The speaker, Sheperd Doeleman, really knows how to *pull* the audience in.
Yeah we really got sucked in.
Ha!
It’s such a bad pun, that it works😂
Yea, I couldn't escape his grasp and this is not a light hearted topic either.
Nah, they just tend to *fall* into focus.
I would love to hear this guy lecture. Just riffing he's like the square root of 27 + change. Awesome.
I watch this video whenever I feel down because I'm reminded that awesome people like him exist and did the seemingly impossible with a group of amazing humans. Our universe is so beautiful
I wish Stephen Hawking lived to see this
He ded
He was a theoretical physicist. Technically he saw it without any telescope. The brain was his telescope.
He is...! Right from the BlackHole he currently resides in..
Sriram R his birthday was on the same day as me
@@ismitagharat7511 wow that's awesome, I'll try to wish you on Jan8th lol
They announced the image of the black hole on my birthday, April 10th, which is a great deal to me because I have always been fascinated by black holes and worm holes ever since I could read. I would spend hours looking through wikipedia pages about black holes, Einstein, Hawking, etc. I watched Interstellar over and over. All the images and the scenes were just simulations. I thought the day I can see a real black hole would never come. And it came, on my birthday. How can it be more awesome!
Should have been April the 1st....... its total nonsense
barry weber thank you!
Dylan Rogers you never came back
@Dylan Rogers traitor
@Dylan Rogers you have done a sin that is the biggest sin of all sins.
perish
The scientist has a sense of Humour ✅
Of course, you need to be smart to have a sense of humor.
This is by far the best TED I've ever seen - and I've seen A LOT.
It took CZcams a year to finally recommend me something worthy
Try typing
@@michaelfleming1223 try not being that guy
@@Marvinthecoinhunter
The one scares ppl and my teir 2 is into rape, teir 3 fantasized about murder so I keep him at bay
Same
The 305 people who disliked this video are flat earthers.
or non satanist. If it's not an obvious 666 to you then you can't be helped
Those people came from black hole and they dont like it
I'm a flat universer
@@publicopinion3596 I just believe that if you zoom out enough, the whole universe is a flat disc operating on simplistic geometric patterns, somehow spinning itself on it's own energy
But I cant figure out why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch. Time to get a job at the factory and dedicate 40 years of my life cracking that one.
Wish me lots of luck!
@@TheMasterTelevision lmao good luck
Great visualisation to explain how the "photo" was taken.
I still find this trippin that we got a pic of this and it’s hard for me to wrap it around my head. I can’t wait to see what we can do 5 years from now
Hehehe. I talk like you.
Nasa: Discovers and shows black hole to the people
People: Makes memes about it
They're not nasa , Nasa is bankrupt & under budget
Aliens looking us: Let's study this species of ape evolving conscious beings and see how fast they are growing by measuring their progress on their latest major technological advance compared to their time of existence since the beginning of their most earliest ancestor.
Us spotting first black hole:
*makes memes*
👽: 🤨
true 😂
Such is the internet...
That wasn't NASA
This image is just the beginning
i love how this guy loves space so much and he really enjoys wat he does
Space is beautiful
@@dontstalkme5332 but also terrifying
@@ifeelnothing3844 I think we are in a simulation
@@dontstalkme5332 I am sorry but I don't agree with you. That's completely impossible.
@@ifeelnothing3844 yeah, I understand. It's just my opinion. Like for me, the universe is a lil too real to be real you know. Like the fact that we can see stars light years away is kinda scary cus I can't imagine how big that star would be! It's scary af
This host is hard to handle. You can see this guy has so much passion and insight to offer on the subject and the host hardly let’s him speak before preparing the next step.
This guy presents himself very well and very articulate. Smart man with well detailed explanations.
7:31
I can’t even get my head around the idea of being able to capture an image of an object with millions of other objects blocking the view.
Like trying to photograph a single tree in the center of the forest, while standing outside of the forest 🤔
You won't believe how powerful that telescope is, even the smallest flinch or change in space, it would instantly home in on it
Yeah almost seems photoshopped
@@captainchaos6812 it's edited that's for sure but that doesn't mean it's fake...
It’s a telescope not an iPhone camera
It’s a black hole not a tree.yes a tree in a forest is hard to see but that doesn’t mean we can’t see a black hole because there is no black hole forest.its the only black hole we can see. U should put an ant in front of u while taking picture then be like “ bro an ant blocks my whole view”
I got really intrigued and super stoked after watching this video.
Well done! New footstep in moving towards wisdom of galaxies!
Interstellar gave an image which was almost satisfying this image.
And this is why we need to come together as one forget our differences and complete challenges as one Human race and not think culture, religion and other differences, we can achieve more as a whole that benefits all of us and just not for science
Science has this incredibly successful track record because it begins by ignoring the biases (and prejudices) of everyone, it just deals with what can be observed and proved (or disproved) by evidence. A lot of non-critical thinking (that leads to the "races," religions and "differences" that you allude to) are immediately dispensed with so actual progress can be made (science is a mere subset of critical thinking). But as soon as each individual devotes themselves to critical thinking, they also can overcome (or at least ignore) their own biases and prejudices to more quickly achieve those benefits that you mention.
@Joe Chang
You didn't address your query to anyone by name, so forgive me if I wasn't the intended recipient, but I'll try to answer your very valid questions and assertions regardless.
"How (do) you get from Einstein's equation to (a) black hole?...All description and assumption, no explanation and mechanism, no cause and effect, this is not science but religion."
Nope, it's not religion, which is based on faith (belief without evidence). Some people think that a scientific theory is a scientist's "best guess" or "educated guess" or "speculation." This is because the word "theory" has been absorbed into colloquial language and is commonly used as the layman's "best guess" or "speculation." Some people were taught by inferior or confused science teachers that there is some supposed hierarchy in science, such that a fact/observation somehow graduates to a hypothesis, the hypothesis graduates to a theory, then the theory graduates to a law. THIS IS INCORRECT and no reputable scientist has ever even suggested this. A scientific theory is the HIGHEST echelon that information can ever attain. A scientific theory CONTAINS and INCLUDES all known facts, successful/non-falsified hypotheses and known/proven laws. The theory may still be incomplete, with still-missing pieces, but that doesn't mean that even in its incomplete form it still can't be provisionally accepted as valid and incredibly useful, just as Einstein's theories and the Theory of Natural Selection have been for decades, incomplete, but still incredibly useful.
All that Einstein (or any other astrophysicist/cosmologist that have no direct access to the humongous celestial phenomena that they are observing) can do is work with the data that they currently have and use it and mathematics and reproducible physical/earthly demonstrations to form hyphotheses and then invite the scientific community to subject the hyphotheses to withering cross-examination. In other words, the theorist WANTS his rivals to show him/her where he/she might be wrong! If a rival colleague presents future evidence that invalidates any part of the hypothesis, the hypothesis either has to be modified to agree with the new data, or in some instances, the hypothesis is outright discarded.
Why would a scientist want to be proven wrong? So that they don't remain misguided/deluded as to what the facts/reality are, they won't have to waste anymore time going down an unsuccessful rabbit hole. They can get on to more successful and useful hypotheses that might benefit mankind.
After enough separate hypotheses have withstood these rival cross-examinations, they can be combined with all known facts, observations, laws and mathematics to form a theory, i.e. a model to describe some aspect of nature/the universe that is so accurate, so successful, so helpful, so useful for humanity and perhaps most importantly, so PREDICTIVE of what future phenomena (that have yet to be discovered) SHOULD look like if the tenets of the theory continue to hold.
An excellent example of this was the recent picture of the black hole found at the center of a galaxy. Even before the picture was revealed, thousands of scientists had used the best/latest theoretical models of what the picture SHOULD look like IF the theory that the scientists were currently accepting was correct...and what did we see?...Pretty much EXACTLY what was predicted by theory would be seen! Now, even though this was impressive support for the theory, it DOES NOT MEAN that the current theory will never be changed or disproven or discarded. It merely means that for the time being, the current theory is incredibly accurate, incredibly useful, incredibly predictive and that it has withstood all assaults from rival theorists. The theory lives another day, only to be assaulted on a daily basis by new observations and rival theories.
"Without understanding the precise mechanism of a theory, how can you accept it as true?"
The wording here is important. Those who accept the findings of science don't necessarily say that ANY fact or hypothesis or theory is "TRUE," rather they accept the fact or hypothesis or theory as "the best that we can do with our current experiments, measurements, knowledge and abilities." They realize that there will always be new discoveries that supplement the current body of scientific knowledge, but they don't have to wait until the science is "complete." 1) Because science will never be complete, it's always being added to 2) Even with incomplete science, much good can still come from it. Case in point, just because Natural Selection is an incomplete theory of evolution doesn't mean it has been useless. There are many gaps in the theory that are unexplained and various new phenomena such as epigenetics, horizontal gene transfer and symbiogenesis may help fill those gaps or shift evolutionary theory away from Natural Selection (NS). But in the meantime, NS has resulted in an explosion of successful medical and agricultural successes unlike anything that preceded it. And those adherents of NS should be THRILLED if NS is every torn down! Why? Because any theory that supplants NS will be EVEN MORE SUCCESSFUL, MORE USEFUL, MORE PREDICTIVE than NS, and THAT is saying a LOT!.
My original post spoke of critical thinking and how many people don't use it nearly often enough. And it has nothing to do with intelligence. Using Einstein as an example: his brilliant theories have repeatedly stood the test of time and been incredibly helpful in science. But even Einstein was as susceptible as you or I to bouts of non-critical thinking: He inserted the "Cosmological Constant" into his field equations basically so that, no matter what future astronomical observations were made, the constant would ensure that the universe appeared to be steady-state or static, i.e. that it doesn't expand or contract. In other words, Einstein inserted the constant because HE DIDN'T WANT the universe to expand or contract. It had NOTHING to do with fact or reality, it was just his human BIAS, his wishful thinking. And later, he was adult enough to describe it as his "biggest blunder." He knew that he could have set science back by decades by invoking his own desires into his theories rather than simply accepting the actual science.
"Are you a rational thinker?"
I struggle on a daily basis to try to be. But I recognize that I also have biases (just like every other human that has ever lived) and I have to discount them over and over on a daily basis to get actual rational thinking done. But my work will never be done, my brain is hard-wired with these biases to fool me in so many ways, just as every other humans is, so I (and everyone else) should be forever vigilant.
A final question to you: If you aren't impressed by the success rate of the scientific method, could you suggest another mode of inquiry that shows any success at all? Peace.
@xhemexx After his first post, I was willing to give Joe Chang the benefit of the doubt and attempt to address his concerns honestly (I figured that the peanut gallery might be interested as well). But after reading his last few postings, I'm convinced of any one of the following (in decreasing order of likelihood): 1) Joe's a troll 2) he runs his responses through the Deepak Chopra random word generator to end up with "deepities," 3) English isn't his first language; and the very least likely: 4) He has actually proven the thousands of astrophysicsts/cosmologists wrong with his brilliance and needs to book his flight to Stockholm...but I'm not giving him any more of my time...
People like you make me think it's probably fake to spread communism.
Its funny as i was worried that my comment sound communist, thanks for confirming but to be honest im happy for the rich to stay rich and the poor to be a little richer if that helps :)
The documentary about this project is a must see.
The guy is not only smart.
You need to be a tremendous inspirational leader to organise, coach, motivate and get all aligned with all the setbacks etc.
wow those graphic visuals really helped understand. great video!
i feel proud to be a witness of this mega moment
next up: feminism and church constructions!
Mega bullshit, so proud!
@Ninja Wizard you do realize that black holes and dark matter/energy violates basic fundamental laws of physics? You cheer up a conspiracy theory in science and because it's been glorified for about a century now, you do not question it's validity, also you do not accept any form of criticism about it? Furthermore, do you know that the concept that those several observatories acting as telescope the size of earth is actually exaggerated and they do have missing information they invoked with statistical predictions to fill in this missing data to produce any form of accuracy from the very little photons they might be getting from this particular point in space? Until this could be confirmed I do not wanna be part of or be proud of speculation that might end up to be utterly false.
@Ninja Wizard In this model they use, the event horizon of the black hole has velocity greater than the speed of light and at the same time 0 velocity as it emits radiation, which is in full contradiction of any scientific observations possible, and if you have gone deeper in this you should know that, but you obviously do not. Also, by definition and known observation matter cannot be compressed beyond certain levels simply because of the structure it forms and the density, which I see you somehow dismiss in favor of mysticism and concepts beyond your reach that cannot be strictly defined which is the sole goal of science - to have exact definitions of processes and motions. So you dare talking and compare my argument as such made by the church, please gimme a break.
@@NikolayNikoloff Except this is not a model, this is legit photons being captured by our array. This picture is the visual evidence.
I started to think that The Movie Interstellar is Amazing.
If you haven't watched it ,I suggest you should.
It is, one if the best movies to have been directed. Predicts and tells exactly how things are.
@@matt_timoo Well, it does get very speculative at the end but you are generally right.
I thought so too! Fell in love with that movie
Somewhere I have read How Nolan picted that Black hole in Interstellar it was a kind of perfect what most of the theoretical physicists think until now.
Even scientists from Nasa have stated that black was so good to see.
The blackhole scene though isn't realistic said Chris Hadfield one of our astronomers, accurate movies are space odyssey and apollo 13
I could only but imagine the mind and the joy of Einstein, if he got to see that image.
Thank you so much for sharing new knowledge about black hole
That’s just awesome! Especially the cooperative nature of the discovery!
I like also the 3 pixels very much thank you
Hope one day we all can live and work together like this group of scientists.
Rang Klos Science makes progress in spite of scientists who are normal human beings prone to bias, prejudice, and confirmation bias. Ad hominem attacks are still common in peer reviews and press releases. One example is how the scientists who claim to be seeing this distant black hole mock scientist who interpret the data in an Electric Universe plasma dynamic model.
@@DeathValleyDazed hmm , how do you explain gravity in this model? In my knowledge there is no experiments that shows connection between gravity and electromagnetism. Can you show some experiments? Electric universe is a fucking joke. It does not explain anything properly. There is no clarity in things.
We are, we should throw the media in that blackhole because they're the ones dividing us, not racism, no1 would know racism if we weren't being told it exists. Just like when we were babies, we learned to speak words from others, now we're learning these words through others, and the media in controlling our minds.
Hear me out: let’s tie a GoPro to a string and send it into a black hole, then we just give it a yoink and get the GoPro back
Yeah but the part that gets sucked in probably wouldn't be able to get pulled back out because it would require a COLOSSAL amount of force to pull it out since the amount a black hole can suck in is literally so strong that light can't even escape. Also the camera along with part of the rope will get spaghetti-fied so it most likely won't work anymore. Cool idea though, if only it was possible.
Lmao if we tried to do that we'd probably get sucked in too with how strong black holes are
@@vi0let831 there wouldn’t be anything to pull out. A black holes gravity is so strong that it pulls you apart at the atomic level, basically turning you into spaghetti... hangs the reason nothing can come back after the event horizon. To bad. I’d love to know what’s inside those mysteries.
@@vi0let831 We just have to use a really long rope, and tie it to something heavy
(Also I know this wouldn’t work, I was just making a joke lol)
This is genius.
I will never be able to comprehend how something like this actually exists. Too incredible for words.
Layman: What is a Black H-
Physicist: NOT EVEN LIGHT CAN ESCAPE
Says every black hole documentaries ever lol
We are 100% sure how black holes work, but we are still 99% unsure how light works... Something doesnt smell right.
@@justifiably_stupid4998 wait what.... how did you come to that conclusion? He did say they have no idea what happens in a black hole and you take that as we are 100% sure how black holes work.... I think your listening skills doesn't work right :)
Brian Light and sound work on the same frequency. A powerful enough laser aimed at the event horizon could bounce off and even recharge the battery that shot the laser.
Olund I think it has a polarizing effect and would be like looking in an inverted mirror or universe creating multiple scenarios and multiverses.
It's so beautiful and mesmerising to see how he speaks so passionately about this picture.
Props to the people who worked on this image 👏🏻👏🏻
Probes to the guy for explaining everything so beautifully. One can't help but marvel.
I wasn't ready for the picture!!!
Simply amazing! May I live long enough to see what may come of this.
the last word almost drop me in tears.
Massive respect for him and his team.....🙏
@06:39 -- Whenever you see a TED host repeat the question, "So, tell us about what we are actually looking at here.." more than once, you know it must be some deep, dark, spooky, shiitake mushrooms.
He is setting up a viewer on how to focus and perceive the stage and image to give it depth via line of sight and geometry.
So so soooo fascinating 😯🙌
I'm amazed that human beings can image such an object at a near unimaginable scale and distance from the Earth. The other thing that blows my mind is a black hole is a sphere in three dimensions, but it's also a hole. The universe sure is a crazy chaotic place.
this is super fascinating
damn imagine if Einstein and hawking had seen this
Hawking not seeing this is the most depressing part. Einstein was dead long ago. The depressing part is if Hawking had lived JUST one year more he would have seen this real picture of this cosmic monster which he had been studying for his whole life.
@@vedantsridhar8378 plot twist: this picture was already taken before hawking passed
@@qxpn9220 Yeah I hope Hawking KNEW that the picture was already taken and was under processing. Hawking was still alive when the photo was captured but he passed away during its analyzing and processing. So he didn't get to see the processed photo.
@@qxpn9220 plot twist: mr.Hawking had witnessed the secret of the universe from the quantum world on which his consciousness transcended
If they would had been alive by the time, we'd have had 100 times more data about it by now!
like the video when they show the black holes images. Our way to applaud and show appreciation.
I love this topic so much! I have just an idea that came up to my mind from something you mentioned. What about if we, our galaxy are a black hole ourself... As all the planets are kind of stuck to orbit around the sun with all the stars... We do not really have the ability to get out of it and what is outside of our galaxy is out of reach... Can this be an hypothesis?
He helped me understand that on a whole other level!
Great video, vary informative and a beautiful ending too 💫
Thank you
Wow, what a time we live in!!! Amazing exploration and presentation.
the man and as well his team is greatly polite and not showing off about their achievement!!!! respect bruwww
Great video, thank you!!
After watching tons of videos on YT I finally understand Theory of Relativity in those 10-15secs in the start where he talked about Einstein's theory🤣
This is the 20th time I’ve watched this video..... and it still amazes me.
Amazing.. Great photo seeing how much had to be exactly spot on. You have officially blown this old brain. When I was young we had 9 planets. Thank you so much. Wow !!
can't stop digging this thing after that documentary on netflix. must watch!!!
It’s the Ring from LOTR.
Ahh I won’t forget that meme when the image first released.
Shep is so articulate, great video, a great book that details the Event Horizon Telescope and Shep's efforts is "Einstein's Shadow" by Seth Fletcher really worth reading!
"And as scientists, we naturally come together to do something like this." They are great!
Thanking these guys on behalf of whole species for doing such a remarkable job👏
Can't wait to see how Milky way's blackhole would look like
YES ME TOO
It's crazy that when I was a kid, I don't even know if black holes were in the lexicon. Most people definitely had never heard of it, or the theory. And we've gone from that, to having a picture of one. Incredible.
One of the best Ted talks. You can see how he loves black holes and how exited he is about it 😆♥️
Saianna Sweet who doesn’t
This was fanatic. He has so much passion
You can feel his passion for his work.
This is the technique they should use to listen for sounds from space. If the light coming from that far away is to large for us to see it then maybe the sounds are too big for us to hear them. Not sound in the traditional sense as it wouldn't pass through space but signals and wavelengths of sounds. If every solitary device listening for these signals was synchronized atomically and played back overtop another at the same signal rate maybe there would be some audible detection of signals being cast out from space in our direction. Well maybe not but really fun to think about!
The fact that they needed to cooperate with other countries to take this picture is a principle one should use in the design of a Mars expedition. The fact that a country should take the burden of sending astronomers to Mars is something that belongs in the 1960s. With collaboration, the project becomes more realistic.
Heres Linnaeus's system of classification:
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Has nothing to do with cosmology and astrophysics but just appreciate that I dedicated my time to provide you with this