@ledownloader123 no it’s there, SP is just being a tard for some reason and not loading it properly, same thing for me. Just search it up on google if youre so inclined.

Wait there’s no real photograph?
Never was one.
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@RedstoneAeroAviation ok, well I was told that it was the Milky Way's Supermassive Black-Hole, and I don't know much about the event itself, I was never told that it was took by Event Horizon. But yes, I know what Event Horizon is, I just didn't know that it was the one that took the photograph.

@AWESOMENESS360 and I don't think the Event Horizon telescope can be classified as a space telescope as the array of dishes isn't orbiting the earth.

@AWESOMENESS360 the supermassive black hole in the image belongs to the M87 Galaxy not the milky way. there are 2 images of black holes, the milky way one is a simulation

classified

Edwin Hubble too.

Stephen Hawkings would be proud.

@Vidal99977 welp, they're better than nothing. I'm actually impressed by the quality, considering it's taking a picture of something that's several million light years away from us.

Hubble space telescope has blurry images

I saw a video on this that had the exact same references as you said... I can’t remember the name..

Epic

also, NEVER give up an opportunity to flex.

@Mattangi2 oh lol

@AWESOMENESS360 it was heartwarming to know that someone else is also interested in this stuff XD

@Mattangi2 well goodness, if you already knew this, why'd you ask me?

it's a common (very common) misconception that spaghettification happens because one side is closer to another. This is true, and to some extent, this is what happens. But the strech and squeeze of the tendex lines produced by dense and spinning and small objects are what really cause them.

@AWESOMENESS360 i wasnt finished sorry

@AWESOMENESS360 also, what's interesting is that the bigger the black hole is, the less spaghettified things become, and in the case of supermassive black holes, only the biggest stars are affected at all. This is because tidal forces have everything to do with ratios and density. The sun, currently, has a gravitational pull of about 28 Gs. So the stretch and compression of the earth (if we ignore the moon) is quite large. If the sun were smaller, but the same 28 Gs, then the tendex lines of the sun become more prominant and also more abundant. They squeeze and strech with greater vigor. If the sun were bugger, but with the same density, then the tendex lines would become less prominent.

@Mattangi2 but I said tidal force in the comment, right in the beginning.

@AWESOMENESS360 it's basically just really strong tidal forces.

@AWESOMENESS360 youre close. These are called tidal forces, and they're the reason why tides occur on earth. They appear perpendicular to the stretch and squeezes of tendex lines.

@Mattangi2 I ain't no scientist, but I'll take a shot at it.

Spaghettification occurs when the tidal force of the black hole's gravitational field is strong enough to pull things apart; Say you somehow created a black hole with the mass of 10 million suns in your room. Ignoring the fact that it would completely de-materialize everything, including our entire solar system, let's say you took an eraser and slowly edged it closer to the event horizon of the black hole. As it gets closer, the gravitational pull increases, pulling one end of the eraser stronger than the other end. Assuming your grip is strong enough to hold onto the eraser, the end that's closest to the black hole would start to get stretched out due to a stronger gravitational pull than at the end that's furthest away from the black hole. Eventually, it'd become this long strip of eraser matter that has become spaghettified. Hopefully that makes sense, idk if it's 100% accurate or not, but hopefully it gives you a better understanding on how it works.

I don't think people understand how amazing that picture is.
first of all, the reason they couldn't take a picture of a black hole closer than 55 million light years away is because anything closer and the glare of the accretion disk itself would completely faze out the rest of the shot. The scientists that partook in the photoshoot first tried it on Sagittarius A* back in like 2012, but after 4 years gave up. They described it as "trying to take a picture of a jittery child."

And they can't go farther than that either. Because most black holes further than M87, then you fall into the relm of Quasars. Quasars are black holes who's accretion disks are so hot that they outshine galaxies by a factor of a couple thousand. These black holes are called primordials, because they no longer exist; the universe is no longer violent enough to support the existance of quasars. however, when you look far away, you are looking into the past, as light travels at a constant speed. So to look farther than M87, you would have to look at black holes that outshine galaxies. So no good.

the picture itself is actually really extraordinary, especially when you realize that the glow of the black hole is all from 1 flat ring stretching across the equator of the black hole. The reason the entire black hole seems to be glowing is becuase light coming from behind the black hole being emitted off of the accretion disk is being bent around the black hole and into our eyes. That's incredible!

@AWESOMENESS360 yes. can you explain to me why exactly spaghettification happens?