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What does our black hole look like?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Horizon Telescope - What's the Difference?

There's 300 scientists from 13 institutions involved in the event horizon telescope. They recorded all of this data five years ago, in april of two thousand 17,. Over just five nights of observing, and they've been crunching the data ever since. The black hole is dynamic. It's frothing and bubbling and burping. So it's like trying to take a picture kids when they're running around after eating too many doughnuts. You're more likely to get a fuzzy picture than a crisp image that you'd get if your kid was standing still.

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