Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough'

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Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough'

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Orange Halo (Score:0, Offtopic)

by goombah99 ( 560566 ) writes:

is this a metaphor for our president?
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  by mark-t ( 151149 ) writes:
  
  It is artificially colored. The actual "color" of the disk is not in the visible spectrum
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    by Anonymous Coward writes:
    
    invisible? like the inauguration crowd?
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      by mark-t ( 151149 ) writes:
      
      Not exactly... the ring is actually "colored" in the X-ray region... I'm unaware of any detectable EM radiation emitted by the otherwise invisible portions of the inauguration crowd.
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        by smi.james.th ( 1706780 ) writes: on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:48AM (#58415080)
        
        Also, we've gotten used to seeing radio images in this orange colour scale. Look at MeerKAT's first-light image for comparison.
        
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        by Anonymous Coward writes:
        
        no

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