First ever Black Hole Picture

[Ban-jani]

Not moot at all.

It did not receive any optical signals at all and they had to fanny around with algorithms until the computers produced the image they expected.

Scientific method not.

Lol

 

[aguero93:20]

Algorithms. What are they....?.?........;(

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[citizen_maine]

Algorithms. What are they....?.?........;(

Alien lifeforms from the planet Algori

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Not moot at all.

It did not receive any optical signals at all and they had to fanny around with algorithms until the computers produced the image they expected.

Scientific method not.

Define optical signal. Do you object to all images made with radio telescopes, or just this one?

 

[Chippy_boy]

Not moot at all.

It did not receive any optical signals at all and they had to fanny around with algorithms until the computers produced the image they expected.

Scientific method not.

I may be mistaken but I doubt you're that hot on array telescopes, aperture synthethis and very long baseline Interferometry? There's nothing particularly exotic about using multiple distant telescopes to create an image - the technique has been around for decades.

"Fannying around with algorithms until..." doesn't accurately describe the process. There's no "fannying around" about it. The telescopes in effect form one enormous lens with gigantic aperture, and it's entirely reasonable to call the output a photograph.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

I may be mistaken but I doubt you're that hot on array telescopes, aperture synthethis and very long baseline Interferometry? There's nothing particularly exotic about using multiple distant telescopes to create an image - the technique has been around for decades.

"Fannying around with algorithms until..." doesn't accurately describe the process. There's no "fannying around" about it. The telescopes in effect form one enormous lens with gigantic aperture, and it's entirely reasonable to call the output a photograph.

It’s still out of focus.

 

[Chippy_boy]

It’s still out of focus.

Maybe 53 million light years is too far round on the focus knob?

 

[denislawsbackheel]

The documentary last night showed them getting image after image presented by the computer that they didn’t like, because they didn’t understand them.
They kept altering the algorithm until it fitted their expectations.
As I maintain, scientific method not.

 

[Jazzman]

But, what is it good for ...?

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Maybe 53 million light years is too far round on the focus knob?

Have to get the aperture right.
Excuses excuses.