/sci/ - Science & Math

Ancient galaxy. It's so old and far we can't see its light properly.

Clown nose

>>14650845
its hal

>>14650996

allah ?

>>14651028
yes allah star cluster. The primordial consciousness in the universe. A brain spanning hudreds of lightyears that takes millions of years to formulate an idea

The Pale Red dot, you know, something wonderful waiting to be known

>>14650845
Some científico shining a laser pointer at the lens

>>14650855
You mean it's a redshift?

incoming trans-galatic death ray

>>14650845
That's the spot where one of the micro-meteorites hit...there are dozens more but most aren't in such a black area.

>>14653103
seriously though what was the actual damage of the meteorite, there has to be some kind of hit to image quality because of it, but they're putting out the images like nothing happened, i feel better if they let us know there are somethings they aren't able to do with the cracked mirror but we're hearing nothing

>>14654060
the images are probably slightly worse in quality overall

>>14654067
if your camera lens was cracked, it woudn't be slightly worse, it would be almost completley unusable

>>14654070
yeah but webb has several mirrors

>>14654060
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/06/08/webb-engineered-to-endure-micrometeoroid-impacts/
>TLDR
A mirror was hit by a micrometeorite bigger than they tested for, but due to preflight autism the effect on the data is minimal.
Similar to how they didn't expect the launch to go as smoothly as it did, so the telescope ended up with enough fuel to double its lifespan.

this, but the cat is mankind

>>14650845
A galaxy that was destroyed by Grox

>>14654102
>Similar to how they didn't expect the launch to go as smoothly as it did, so the telescope ended up with enough fuel to double its lifespan.
Eh, they always say that so that they look like miracle workers. They do the same thing with the Mars rovers which have an expected lifespan of months, but go on to work for years.

Red dots are indicative of an STD. God didn't wear protection.

hell

>>14654608
nah, they just don't know in advance if everything will go alright, and don't want to get roasted if something goes wrong

>>14650845
Its a tasty fruit, you should go eat it

>>14655420

>>14654060
Mirror damage would cause a loss of brightness and diffraction effects

>>14654070
Not true as long as some part of the lens would still be intact. You can tape over broken parts and use the parts that still have good glass and the picture comes out fine but you need more exposure

>>14650858
Fuck this almost made me spit out my sugarfree (so basically nonsticky water) soda. Next time post a jumpscare instead of a jumplaugh to prevent this

It's a galaxy or cluster of galaxies so far away all we see is the red shifted light without any details.

A better question is what is this in the deep field image from JWST

Here's where the black circle can be found

>>14650858
fucken kek

>>14657530
>>14657538
Is it a black hole?

>>14657530
>>14657538

>>14657582
This would be the biggest black hole ever discovered, by orders of magnitude beyond the currently known largest black hole, TON 618, which has a Swartzchild Radius of only 390 billion km or 1400 AUs. This is only roughly 40 times the distance from Neptune to our Sun.

The object in the image is larger than most galaxies. This leads me to pursue an answer for this question. What the fuck is it.

>>14657633
Could it be within the Milky Way, like the stars in the pic?

>>14657639
I do believe any object in the milky way in the image would be fully visible due to the amount of light here. If this were another black hole in our galaxy, we naturally wouldn't be able to see it without an accretion disk. I am curious if there is a very slight accretion disk on the circle's circumference. However I feel the focus of this object would make it far too blurry to see the circle in such definition as this, if it were in our galaxy.

>>14657530
I might have found another.

>>14657633
Maybe it's a normal sized rogue and is just very close.

>>14657633
what is it about black holes that makes them the number one most popular popsci topic of discussion amongst the brainlet soience fangoys?
is it the comic bookish aspects of the spectacular, unrealistic and completely non disprovable conjectures which go along with the topic that make black holes so popular amongst the scientist posers and wannabes?

>>14657723
I would be led to believe if it was a rogue planet within our own galaxy there would be a ton of light reflecting off of it making it visible. Additionally, the focus range of the Deep Field image would render the planet as a fuzzy blob (i believe).

>>14650845
khorne

>>14657682
interesting!!

>>14654070
That's not how reflectors work, if you damage one of the many mirrors the image will get slightly worse, heck you could completely smash a few of the mirrors on jwts and it would still operate, it would just need to run longer exposures.

>>14657530
could be a dark object in the path of that light, or even causing lensing

>>14650858
lol

>>14657935
Not a rogue planet, a rogue BH.

>>14657633

It's just ketchup stain on the telescope lens

>>14659069
same with lenses actually

Uh, guys?

GUYS

>>14655420
That image, are zoomers this retarded, I can believe it.

>>14660287
you could have at least used webb's diffraction pattern