Gentleness is so important. Gentleness of the heart. Gentleness of the spirit. Gentleness in one’s aura. Gentleness in one’s own motivations and actions. Gentleness that is both embodied and practiced.
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of a black hole. Today, in coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they have succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow. The image reveals the black hole at the centre of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. This black hole resides 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun. Supermassive black holes are relatively tiny astronomical objects — which has made them impossible to directly observe until now. As the size of a black hole’s event horizon is proportional to its mass, the more massive a black hole, the larger the shadow. Thanks to its enormous mass and relative proximity, M87’s black hole was predicted to be one of the largest viewable from Earth — making it a perfect target for the EHT. The shadow of a black hole is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. The black hole’s boundary — the event horizon from which the EHT takes its name — is around 2.5 times smaller than the shadow it casts and measures just under 40 billion km across.
Credit: ESO
Space X Falcon 9 taking off above Downtown LA. Shot at 1 second interval!
This is how future looks.
me: *is bored for 0.5 seconds*
me: i wanna learn how to work wood. i need to build a boat
*nuzzles face in your ass cheeks* ;3 Kawaii desu desu notice me senpai My Vagoober aches for your touch Vagoogoo uwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwu~~~ 💦💦💦💦🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆😍😍😍
Wow this is,,,,,,absolutely awful, I hate it
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