Comment on Is a black hole spherical? How come it looks different each way you view it like on it's side or up and down?

Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not true. This is a direct image, even though it was captured by radiotelescopes and not optical ones.

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  • Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a picture of the glowing plasma orbiting right outside the event horizon and the black hole’s shadow in the centre - not a picture of the black hole itself.

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