Black hole picture captured for first time in space ‘breakthrough’

UK Guardian ^ | April 10, 2019 | Hannah Devlin

[norwaypinesavage]

The odds that the plane of the doughnut would be perpendicular to us, the observers, would be quite slim.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[mikrofon]

[Conan the Librarian]

I was just looking at M87, but, my scope didn’t see this. :D

Cool Beans!

[ADemocratNoMore]

The stuff is called Vantablack and is made up of carbon nanotubes. Some has been sold for military and industrial applications but it is reputed to be ridiculously expensive. It is also licensed for artistic use to one person on the planet.

Another artist took exception and created Black 2.0 which is available to the public at reasonable cost.

[lonevoice]

Unreal. We live in such an amazing time!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj.

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