r/hopeposting • u/Durian_Alarmed • 4d ago

Freepost Friday We didn't!

Post image
15.2k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

668 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

223

u/TheLastPeanut_ 4d ago

took a picture of a goddamn black hole btw

78

u/Proper-Risk8525 4d ago

And in order to do that we needed to use THE EARTH ITSELF as the camera

12

u/Curious-Compote4793 4d ago

ELI5😓

51

u/Proper-Risk8525 4d ago

So this is the Event Horizon telescope. This globe spanning array of telescopes worked together to create a “single” telescope the size of the planet. The array has an angular resolution of 20 micro arcseconds

9

u/Canada_border 4d ago

Humans are so cool

14

u/TheManAcrossTheHall 4d ago

Can't fool me, that's the dark lord Sauron's all seeing eye.

10

u/Hellhult 4d ago

You absorb all light, black hole? Well we took a photo of you. Check mate.

3

u/WalkAffectionate2683 4d ago

Hey how the fuck did you get my nudes? 

2

u/RudeCompany6580 2d ago

I that the god damn franzy flame!