That image of a black hole you saw everywhere today? Thank this grad student for making it possible

CNN ^ | April 10, 2019 | Michelle Lou and Saeed Ahmed

[wastedyears]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/us/katie-bouman-mit-black-hole-algorithm-sci-trnd/index.html

[wastedyears]

This lady is gonna go in the science textbooks.

[wastedyears]

And she's really cute to boot.

[blueunicorn6]

I tried to look at it, but it sucked in half of Illinois before I could shut it down.

[piasa]

Are you sure? Illinois already sucked.

[Moonman62]

The title is Fake News.

Read the last part of the article under this heading:

Bouman was a crucial member of the imaging team

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I was in Cook County today, so it must have sucked in the wrong half.

[Nateman]

Radio telescopes have been using this technology of combined data from distant points for a long time. Not sure what she added to the technique.

[Fungi]

So a black hole by definition is a body where not even light can escape its gravitational force at the event perimeter. So tell me, how do you get a “picture” of it, and what does that portray, if their is no light or any other information able to cross that perimeter?

[DUMBGRUNT]

Much of Cook County is, in fact, a black hole!

Over here in Dupage, I can hear it sucking the money out of the collar counties!

[farming pharmer]

I think she’s been a guest on the ‘Titanium Physicists’ podcast.

[blueunicorn6]

Yep.

It came out in another dimension and they named it Fred.

[VAFreedom]

the emission of radiation long before the falling matter actually enters the black hole

[Fungi]

Nice try.

[entropy12]

The “picture” is of the outside material sucked in by the black hole, causing it to attain extreme high speeds and that causes them to get extreme hot and emit light. So what you see is the corona around the black hole.

[JudgemAll]

They do emit some faint evaporation products and the quasars create jets of matter going in and out in some way

[JudgemAll]

The media cannot help but try to turn a female stem student into a whore for their agenda

[Fungi]

So not the black hole but a corona which is not the black hole. Nice try.

[Fungi]

Not by the true definition of a black hole where nothing, nothing can escape.

[Crucial]

So she’s part of the team but gets all the credit?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

So a black hole by definition is a body where not even light can escape its gravitational force at the event perimeter. So tell me, how do you get a “picture” of it, and what does that portray, if their is no light or any other information able to cross that perimeter?

They probably captured an image of radiation surrounding the event horizon. Gas around the black hole is being accelerated to very high speeds before it gets sucked in, and we're apparently able to capture images of that. We aren't seeing the black hole itself - we're seeing the phenomena just outside its event horizon.