/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10538465
They are going live with an extra news broadcast on dutch tv which has never happened before for anything other than terrorist attack shit. That suggest it's something huge but I'm willing to bet it's not, and shit is being hyped up for nothing.

>>10538465
It's gonna be like two fucking pixels.

>>10538470
They actually hold like 5 conferences in different languages at the same time. Seems odd over a simple astronomy picture.
I wish I could watch it though. Of course it had to be the one half hour of this day I had other shit to do.

Well, if anything we're getting that goatse edit from that one anon, so it's something I guess?

>>10538465
It's going to be some low rez potato.tiff a literal nothing

>>10538465
>What do you think the announcement is about?
probably some proof that Mars had much more water in the past.

>>10538465
>Sagittarius A*'s picture reveal
I thought it was a nearby galaxy core, not ours. Sgr A* was confirmed being blocked by either a jet or a massive gas cloud earlier this year

>>10538465
There already has been a paper published which suggests we could be looking at the accretion disc from above with the poles (and therefore the astrophysical jets) of the black hole pointed right at us https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06226
If EHT confirms this then it could have quite large implications. The scariest one is that the black hole acts a a filter for life in this galaxy, explaining the Fermi paradox. If the jets periodically become active then they would be in the galactic plane and potential destroy planets containing life. Also I would imagine there would be a lot of questions raised about how the black hole ended up on its side.

Regardless of all that, the image of the event horizon is going to have huge implications for our current understanding of physics. Depending on whether it conforms to our expected models it could either reaffirm or deny the theory of relativity.

>>10538471
fucking this.

>>10538547
ok but is it going to be a cool looking image because they've been hyping this for way too long and even normies who dgaf about science have heard this is happening today

>>10538554
>>10538555
>>10538471
Bearing in mind they had to go through 26 petabytes of data (if I remember right) I think the image will be a little more substantial than a few pixels
Time will tell though

>>10538547
interesting take, thanks for sharing! as an in astronomy interested brainlet, postings like this help me to understand all of this a little better.

>>10538539
>dial up internet era
>It seems to be filled with the latest data of all the things I've read before
>Go to the NASA site
>Get amazed at the pics of the planets, even getting a glimpse of Pluto in pixelated form seems awesome
>Announcement of New Horizons project
>Can't contain excitement
>Periodically check its status over the years, from launch until actual estimated location
>Comes 2015 and we get the first actual pic and it feels incredible to see it for the first time like that, with a heart as a bonus for all the wait

I don't know lad, I know we've been pampered over the years with very good images of things but seeing something for the first time is still very awesome.

>>10538547
>there would be a lot of questions raised about how the black hole ended up on its side
Actually that is mostly solved, since big galaxies like the Milky Way form by merger and the angular momentum adds up during the merger.
A good example of this is the Polar Ring galaxy having two separate parts having different angular momentum axis.

80 mins left

30 mins left and suddenly 60k people between the 2 streams, it better be something good.

Did they accidentally show the pic already? Lmao

>>10538731
The live stream just started!

Test
>>10538738
I think they showed the pic on the livestream by accident already

*PEW PEW noises intensifies*

>>10538742
It was funny, but i dont think that was it

>>10538738
>>10538738
Nice, finally things will start getting fun

they are talking, I feel like they don't know stream is live

check one two three four

>>10538753
Dude, that image is not in the loop anymore. So it was indeed the pic... Lmao

>>10538774
>I'll do it again later.
What did he mean by this?

>>10538767
>can see and analyze through the vastness of space
>can't get a stream done properly even to the mic test
come on

>>10538786
No screenshots?

get into the sticky you nerds
>>10538743

Hello

>>10539221
that is not sagittarius A*
that is M87's black hole

>>10539284
Sorry screwed up the OP, anyways enjoy the black hole.

>>10539221
holy shit

>>10539284
When will they release the picture of Sagittarius?

>>10539396
No worries
I am a little disappointed myself but chalk it up to media hyping up shit they don't know about and throwing out wrong information

>>10539504
Honestly I don't even know if they did anything with sagittarius A*

>>10539504
>>10539522 here again. I looked it up on their website and sagittarius A* is actually one of two (the other being M87) observation targets. So they at least pointed the radio telescopes at it. Not sure if they photographed it though

So let me get straight
>Einstein keeps being unbeatable
>Our BH isn't exactly "activated" so we must be thankful it isn't killing us with the destroyer jets assuming it is pointed towards us
>BHs are an actual, confirmed thing
>Sagittarius A* pic is coming soon
Nice

>We haven't image Sagittarius A*
Cunts.

big pixelated donut

>>10539284
Person that knows nearly nothing about space here. What's the difference?

>>10539872
M87 is 1000 times bigger, but a 1000 times further away.

>>10539872
sagr a* is in our own Galaxy.
M87 is another galaxy.

>>10539728
>Dark matter info later down the road
>Quantum gravity research can progress a bit further
Well, looks like there's some juicy stuff down the road.

>>10539993
Dark matter is such shitty junk science why does anyone in the mainstream act like its anything but? It literally only exists because it covers the massive gaping flaws in the Lambda CDM model and people would rather invent new bullshit to save it and maintain the ideological status quo.

>>10540048
>why does anyone in the mainstream act like its anything but
Because it is anything but
Stop getting your science info from pop sci bullshit

>>10538541
Correct: Messier 87

Turns out it has the same angular size as our galactic black hole (1000x further away, but 1000x larger), but is easier to see because there is less dust in the way.

>>10540079
Dark matter is an ad hoc hypothesis that sometimes explains some of the observed phenomena