
What does our black hole look like?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Black Hole Is a Tiny Dot at the Heart of the Galaxy
The data we're getting is most consistent with us looking straight down on the top of the black hole. The accretion disk as sort of flat with respect to us, which is a huge coincidence. So i guess what exactly did we see in this picture then? Did it confirm the size that we thought it was going to be, or is the black hole there bigger or smaller? We don't have great resolution, but we can measure the event horizon from looking at the black hole and it's to within ten % of what we expectted. It's like, really bang on. Einstein was right again. That einsteinoding always right.
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