Amazing documentary about taking the first picture of a black hole

netflix.com

5 points·jonplackett··8 comments

Doesn't work for people who don't have Netflix accounts or aren't logged in. It's also streaming elsewhere. https://www.blackholefilm.com/ is a better link.

I watched it recently and enjoyed seeing the young people involved enjoying the excitement of being part of something big. I also enjoyed the Japanese Samurai and Carribean pirate documentaries, I hope Netflix makes a few more.

That’s what really struck me too - just seeing how excited they were. It made me think we really need to protect and encourage more people to love science that much!

Better Netflix link: https://www.netflix.com/title/81343342

It is not a picture

In what way is it not a picture?

It is data massaged to create a synthetic representation with a "color" chosen by scientists who then spread around the word its a photo. Even the president of the Max Planck institute one of the most respected German institutions called it a picture. Did you notice it was made with radio telescopes ? Do they take pictures ?

If I take radar measurements of big asteroid coming close to earth and you represent its elevations and valleys do you call it a picture ?

They even choose the colors.... I plan to download the data make a new "picture" with a bright green orange and wait for them to tell me why the color in my "picture" is incorrect...

The end result is still a picture

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