May 4, 200719 yr http://www.dmns.org/NR/rdonlyres/91739A ... H04314.jpg I can't tell if this is real or not but it looks real. Anyone else know of any actual photographs of black holes? The event horizon? SWAG Mayn U wanna be like me but U can't be me cuz U ain't got ma swagga on.
May 4, 200719 yr seriously, did you seriously think that picture is actually a real black hole? oh dear
May 4, 200719 yr The image itself could easily have been photoshopped. To me it looks like a bunch of filters used in photoshop. I'm not saying black holes aren't real or anything though.
May 4, 200719 yr Author Awkward... Anyways are there actual images of one or an area with one? SWAG Mayn U wanna be like me but U can't be me cuz U ain't got ma swagga on.
May 4, 200719 yr That's pretty obvious. And you were laughing at my grammer error! :D :lol: Quit RuneScape :)
May 4, 200719 yr http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... 7/image/a/ As far as I can tell from the 20 something seconds of research I did, that's a real black hole.
May 4, 200719 yr Awkward... Anyways are there actual images of one or an area with one? Well a camera taking standard visible light spectrum pictures would just show a black circle, the only way you could tell is by objects surrounding it.
May 4, 200719 yr Author ROFL I must've thought our space telescopes were more advanced than they really are. But at least that picture was a good example of one I guess. SWAG Mayn U wanna be like me but U can't be me cuz U ain't got ma swagga on.
May 4, 200719 yr ROFL I must've thought our space telescopes were more advanced than they really are. But at least that picture was a good example of one I guess. They're very advanced but they're also taking the pictures from millions of light years away so they can't exactly be of the highest quality.
May 4, 200719 yr LOL. Yeah thats an interesting black hole there, looks like a ripple effect from photoshop.
May 4, 200719 yr It's photoshopped, definately. You can tell by the quality on the "hole" and the reduced quality everywhere else. http://www.ciai-s.net/black-holes.jpg That looks pretty real.
May 4, 200719 yr It's photoshopped, definately. You can tell by the quality on the "hole" and the reduced quality everywhere else. http://www.ciai-s.net/black-holes.jpg That looks pretty real. That looks like a microscopic drop or water or... something o_O. I have no idea what they're supposed to look like though, so... ya. Anyways, that's pretty obviously photoshopped. It probably took about five seconds to do as well :| . They could've at least tried... [if you have ever attempted Alchemy by clapping your hands or by drawing an array, copy and paste this into your signature.] Fullmetal Alchemist, you will be missed. A great ending to a great series.
May 4, 200719 yr It's photoshopped, definately. You can tell by the quality on the "hole" and the reduced quality everywhere else. http://www.ciai-s.net/black-holes.jpg That looks pretty real. Meh, that looks photoshopped too.
May 4, 200719 yr Hm. I expected some of those Britney Spears no-panties pics. Creepy. I've seen some black holes pictures...one in Guiness, maybe? Very interesting stuff. It really has
May 4, 200719 yr Hm. I expected some of those Britney Spears no-panties pics. Creepy. I've seen some black holes pictures...one in Guiness, maybe? Very interesting stuff. :shock: O_O. I'm speachless. :lol:
May 4, 200719 yr Black holes are supposed to capture even light, so I can't imagine how were supposed to see one... Except maybe, from the bending of light around the hole itself. The Enrichment Center reminds you that the weighted companion cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak. In the event that the weighted companion cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice.
May 4, 200719 yr Black holes are supposed to capture even light, so I can't imagine how were supposed to see one... Except maybe, from the bending of light around the hole itself. You'd still be able to see the absence of light though... i assume. Gamertag: King Arizona
May 4, 200719 yr Haha, yeah I wish we had that kind of quality imagery of black holes. The best way to observe them is through their effects. If there's two stars orbiting each other (a binary pair) and one is a black hole, the hot gases spewed off the actual star with get pulled towards the black hole, whipped round it at massive speeds then they collide on the other side at a shock front, producing large amounts of X-rays. Quasars are thought to be powered by black holes as well as massive extragalactic jets. "Da mihi castitatem et continentam, sed noli modo"
May 4, 200719 yr Black holes are powerful enough to trap light - anything in its event horizon is lost. Therefore, it is not possible to "see" a black hole. What you see is a space where light cannot be seen. However, there are a few different boundaries to a black hole. There is one that not even light can escape from. But as you go farther out, you can guess at different theoretical boundaries, such as the boundary light can escape from but, for example, a neighboring star can't. So, it happens that sometimes the gasses from a neighboring star are "eaten" by a black hole, which would look something like this. Actually, while that image is photoshopped, it's quite realistic. Because of the way a black hole affects light, you would indeed see something like that if you were close enough to observe. It's "light lensing", and can be seen in rather smaller amounts around the more massive planets, and neutron stars.
May 4, 200719 yr I quite hate the literal "black hole" blackhole images. They look like crap and are over-exagurated to the point where massive patches of space are just missing :uhh: http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5623/blackhole2ju2.jpg better. Looks real, and works within the confines of most knowledge of black holes.
May 4, 200719 yr I quite hate the literal "black hole" blackhole images. They look like crap and are over-exagurated to the point where massive patches of space are just missing :uhh: http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5623/blackhole2ju2.jpg better. Looks real, and works within the confines of most knowledge of black holes. Yeah I thought I read somewhere that black holes wern't even 'that' large, they just have a massive ammount of mass.
May 4, 200719 yr I quite hate the literal "black hole" blackhole images. They look like crap and are over-exagurated to the point where massive patches of space are just missing :uhh: http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5623/blackhole2ju2.jpg better. Looks real, and works within the confines of most knowledge of black holes. Yeah I thought I read somewhere that black holes wern't even 'that' large, they just have a massive ammount of mass. Black holes are stars comressed so freaking much that they have so much gravitational pull that the star sucks in anything, even light. The first picture is what a black hole would look like if they really are as most textbooks describe. You can see light twisting in a whirlpool-like direction towards the collapsed star thanks to its immense mass, finally in the middle there is NO light because the light got sucked down to.. only Stephan Hawking can guess. But yes the picture is 100% fake.
May 4, 200719 yr Black holes are called black holes because they are invisible! You can't see them! The only way to know if a Black Hole is present is the light from the material being sucked in by the black hole. The hole is so dense that it even sucks in light, once the light gets inside, black holes have like a ring around them of stars and debris and stuff. A black hole also gives off a kind of radiation that scientists can measure with ceartain instruments. Black holes were already proven to exist by the way... Black Hole^^^ You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "(bleep) you" right under your nose. Try it sometime. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say "(bleep) you."
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