Astronomers question if the first picture of a black hole is accurate

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The first picture of a black hole released in 2019 showed a bright ring of light and plasma, but a reanalysis of the data used to make it suggests that may not be accurate

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After three years of analysis, a group of researchers in Japan has produced an image of M87* – the supermassive black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy – that looks markedly different from the one released by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration in 2019. The researchers claim that the EHT group may have made a major mistake.Subscribe now for unlimited access

 

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Light is essentially the external and physical form of time, the image we can see of THE TIME

This image and many similar ones, when I look at them and analyze them - I see and imagine that it is an realized ITER project and that the plasma is magnetically trapped!

big surprise 🙄

So it’s actually a trapezoid and not a ring?

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'The first picture of a black hole released in 2019' is phonier than a counterfeit 3 dollar bill with Bernie Madoff's picture on it.

They 'compute' pure illusions.

An artist’s representation is cool n all that but it’s not the picture and that feels rather manipulative. Show the real not the ideal.

Why do we need a paywall?

Wow

The 2019 Blackhole image is a masterclass in data fabrication. No way 6 pixels could show what they claim.

So everything is just to create hype sadly even in science. Hail social media. Smh.

Sorry, two independent and expert groups working in VLBI interferometry have already confirmed EHT results:

The apparatus provides an excellent picture of the object to be displayed. the Qanon thinkers bite their teeth out at such images, when a fact is presented in such brillianst, there is nothing with imaginary falsifications.

the documentary film clearly showed them adjusting the data to fit a preconceived image

Computer animation

I would say since this story is only available behind New scientists paywall and not available anywhere else. That it should be taken with a grain of salt. Especially since the scientists questioning it haven’t been publicly revealed and neither have their alternative.

It’s definitely not accurate. It’s an attempt to make sense of something not understood.

I hate paywalls 🤬

Is this a photo? I think not. It should be labelled, in the tweet 'artist's impression', or similar.

The World is flat then?

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