At the center of a galaxy more than 55 million light-years away, there's a supermassive black hole with the mass of several billion suns. And now, for the first time ever, we can see it. Astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman, head of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, speaks with TED's Chris Anderson about the iconic, first-ever image of a black hole — and the epic, worldwide effort involved in capturing it.
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Still waiting for Ted to appear
@J Boyd he’s way too stoned still.
ted is kill
Post more talks on cosmology. Thanks
i feel proud to be a witness of this mega moment
next up: feminism and church constructions!
This is so amazing einstein’s future
Its massive energy! Maybe in some future we’d be using it for good!
+Saahil Rachh You can put it in vacuum
+Adi Primanda Ginting Space is an abyss of vacuum, It still mops up everything..
+Saahil Rachh yes but this black hole is very small. Something like this won’t last long. Watch this https://youtu.be/mXzsXaBCuYM?t=130
+Saahil Rachh Black holes don’t grow.
+Saahil Rachh no it doesn’t. The influence of a black hole is limited by proximity. If you are far enough away from a black hole it will never affect you.
Does anyone know where this Ted Talk took place? Is it Vancouver? Because he mentioned Doeleman’s flight landed there ‘less’ than 2 hours ago..
It is Vancouver
These guys are a far cry from flat earthers…& way more inspirational
I subscribe to the flat hole theory, personally. The black hole is really more of a disk than a hole, the light we see around it is actually just light emitting from the sides of the flat disk. #believe
For irrational human beings everything besides their “known” paradigm is not inspirational. you are not more than close-minded.
Well, this took a strange turn.
The first blurry image of Pluto was 23 years ago. Within a half, or maybe even a quarter of a decade from now, we’ll see the detailed image of that blurry Black Hole.
I, personally, can’t wait for the day we can take pictures of black holes with an iPhone.
varun009 that’s kinda stupid, no offense.
The speaker, Sheperd Doeleman, really knows how to *pull* the audience in.
Looks like a Krispy Kreme plain donut
“Where do you end up when you fall into a Black Hole?”
“…Vancouver”
I’M SCREAMING
If a black hole gets so deep it opens into another universe, Does that turn it into a
Worm hole?
There’s no evidence for that
Well if it opens into another universe, of course it’s a wormhole !
No black holes were hurt in the making of this image.
Super Mario Galaxy was right. Science has caught up to Nintendo’s imaginings.
That’s just awesome! Especially the cooperative nature of the discovery!
We now have an official image of blackhole but still I don’t know who Ted is
TED is a abbreviation of “Technology, Entertainment, Design”. I know this is a joke and it was funny, I just wanted to share this useless information.
We never had a picture of a Black hole before, then 20 countries and more than 200 people join and *Bam* there it is, now imagine if we could join as a specie, how many mysteries could we solve, how many solutions could we find?
IF HE CAN JUST SHUTUP AND LET THE MAN DO THE TALKING!