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Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole

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

I think it might have been better for him if i was the one who got shot.

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9-1-1, what’s your emergency? The wait is almost over, 9-1-1 eturns for Season 6 on september 19th! Are you ready?  Quickly fumbled this together after getting hyped from the new promo. Hope you dig it!

how do i get back to that person i wanted to be?                                     i’ll let you know when i figure it out

[image description: two large gifs of eddie diaz and evan buckley from season 5 episode 18 of 9-1-1. the gifs are colored with a soft pink overlay and the text has a white background.

gif 1: eddie stares at his repaired bedroom wall, bracing his hands against it. the text reads, “i’m going to be better -” “for myself.”

gif 2: buck sits on the edge of his dining table, looking up and smiling after taylor leaves the apartment. the text reads, “a clean slate…” “yeah. just not together.”

/end ID]

andrew garfields peter is going to see tom holland’s peter in a multi million dollar suit and turn around and leave

You know, camping is lovely - even though I don’t live in a state that’s so great for it

I think it might have been better for him if i was the one who got shot.

I haven’t finished this drawing yet, as it still have to colour and digitise it. But here’s a drawing of Finral based on this headcannon.

A Random Black bulls Headcannon

-Finral has a lot of scars from the tournament arc when langris literally put holes in his body. He’s pretty self conscious of them as they cover most of his body and are pretty noticeable.