2020 Breakthrough Prize Winner Shep Doeleman-How EHT Imaged a Black Hole 

The organization chose its "face" very well. I am accustomed to sitting through less than optimal deliveries because the speaker is worth hearing (Nima Arkani-Hamed comes to mind), but the general public tends to zone out when that happens. I'm so glad to see they found a communicator who can make it simple enough, but not so simple as to be patronizing (although I admit skipping the recap on relativity and black holes historically). This is a difficult balance to strike.

Doeleman brilliance led him away from the fact of downward falling motion, and into a Black Hole of mythical science Gravity ! Black Hole's came Gravity, which started with Newton's apple falling downward to earth surface. Picture atmospheric oxygen hydrogen gases before, and after, before they're free going everywhere, and after, at the point of BONDING together, they has become motionless water with its molecules motion trapped within cause a downward falling motion known as RAINDROPS ! Reversal of downward falling motion of RAINDROPS/WATER back into a gaseous state is done by PHOTONS ENERGY splitting the water molecules freeing the oxygen hydrogen gases, which again rise upwards into the atmosphere to continue it's gas BONDING cycle making new water. Gas rise from it's molecules in motion, and falls downward when trapped as in BONDING together !

You made me watch the video again

You were had! ... it's all garbage

You weren’t there

I agree.

We even see them around ordinary stars! No black hole required!!! Researchers at the national labs know how to generate a plasma torus from jets. As yet, black hole models cannot fully explain how collimated jets form.

@@stevenverrall4527 as yet. relativity fails to corroborate all observations.. and is it gravitational lensing or coronal??

Absolutely. A simple experiment with a plasma focus device produces the same effect observed from galactic matter expulsions. It is even admitted that those beams are 'electromagnetic', same as a plasma focus. To travel so far from the spin axis in a straight line in both directions requires a current to carry it.

Surely; if the 'black hole' was deforming space time and curving it. As it is supposedly of infinite density and gravity bends light and captures everything, wouldn't these 'jets' bend or fall back into the hole? If the escape velocity of light is the speed of light, then light cannot escape, surely light would not be able to form these jets and escape! Light would have to be traveling faster than light to do so. It's preposterous!

Astronomical lensing effects can be caused by refraction through plasma density gradients.

Congratulations to Shepard, for doing 95% of the work and not getting world wide recognition for it..

Truly a low bar.

@@MadnessMotorcycle .,.really?

There are some facilities working virtual laser pointers into the presentation software to get around this. That is almost certainly the cheapest fix. The Hubble Space Telescope presentations recently switched to such a system.

The originator of this project, Heino Falcke, wrote an excellent book about this research. It doesn't go that in depth, but its a very good read

That is magnification, not resolution. Resolution is in reference to it's scale and how many pixels it is composed of which for whatever reason, no one wants to say.

Bandwidth and connectivity in general, but also not really discussed was the use of GPUs to crunch all that data. They most definitely have gamers to thank for those being commodities they can just pick up off the shelf and use.

Heino Falcke (who came up with this whole project) explains it this way: he said science needs to be attractive to the public for them to care and understand. The radio signals could have been shown in graphs, numbers or black-white pictures. However he chose to go for the red colourscale, reminding of a solar eclipse he once saw and for the fact that the red scale gives the black hole a sense of being something where a lot of energy is racing around, for normal people red colours are more easy to associate with energy than blue for example. He wanted it to be an iconic picture. Just like the big bang wasnt an actual 'bang' and black holes aren't really holes. But its a way to make it comprehensable

@@pjetrs Does the public know that this is a colorized picture? Upon finding out it is a flat out colorized picture, would the public find the pic more or less believable?

@@pjetrs Is this a quote from Falcke? If so could you provide a link to the quote.

Has absolutely nothing to do with archaic concepts of God. Are you trying to dominate neurological real estate just like people have been doing with religion for centuries? Just a primitive R-complex pissing everywhere to mark territory? Science and God are not friends. Positive effects on our physical reality, very little should be attributed to religion in any way. It should not be respected nor revered and certainly not thanked. Religion was invented before we invented toilet paper. It's time to drop this fake as fuck culture and traditions. You don't know what you are, you don't know what others are. All identities are fake. Time to accept your ignorance and face the fears that come with it, like an adult. Being a delusional fake as fuck liability your whole life or enabling others or using the concept of God or religion as a honeydicking manipulation for the sake of social survival it's not only atrocious but dangerous. There is no acceptance of your behavior or of people's delusions. No more conformity. no more enabling people their psychological security blankets. Grow the fuck up.

Look up "The Escape of Photons from Gravitationally Intense Stars", Synge 1966

You probably think the moon landing is fake, the wow signal is fake, and the earth is flat right?

OK Einstein

Any links to back up that claim?

Jǫrmungandr 18 14 A plasmoid would be my strongest bet.

that earth is flat? that earth is the center of the universe, like many priests said years ago?

Where did you get your PhD and how long did that take to conclude your bullshit

They got you. Y'all sat back as the "experts", having contributed absolutely nothing, only insults. And they mopped the floor with your asses. That must be some serious butthurt you people are feeling right now.

Bingo! Big Data science, isn't really science. It basically bypasses peer review since no reviewer is going to go line by line through the source code used to generate the result. Bottom line, you spend a billion dollars to image a black hole, and you damn well better get an image of a black hole.

SEE ABOVE COMMENT

“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless,” the great theoretical physicist, and prolific author Steven Weinberg

@@rubenanthonymartinez7034 Thanks for this beautiful quotation 😊

And I believe that's the beauty of being human... You can question everything, explain certain things but yet be known to nothing 😅

@@ramendramishra1360 beautiful? I think not, this man is depressed. For this genius of a man sees the wonders of the universe, Yet he knows that he will die and disappear, and this is the end of it, these words are true for a hopeless person. For everything is pointless in a atheistic philosophy.

What's your alternative?

@@Kalumbatsch - Trapped gas molecules/Gas Bonding , and Energy Conservation. Unlike the mythical Gravity GAS BONDING is a physical act !

@@rayagoldendropofsun397 Gravity is due to trapped gas molecules? Sorry dude, how old are you?

@@Kalumbatsch - Can U tell where Gravity began, it's origin ?

@@Kalumbatsch - The machinisim of GAS BONDING totally destroys Einstein's space Bending and Newton's mythical Gravity. Including Newton's apple ! All downward falling motion begins when active rising gas molecules in motion as an ENERGY FLOW becomes trapped, and motionless within the process of making solid objects, which as solid objects with zero ENERGY FLOW of MOLICULAR MOTION can only fall downward. This is scientificly known as the mechanism of GAS BONDING, which take on a state of solid mass blocking out its electrons motion, it's fire power, thus becomes ENERGY LOCK lifeless dead gas molecules, and falls downward in real time, following it's Electrons Unlimited Potential Velocity at the speed of light connects with the earth ENERGY CONSERVATION SYSTEM, establishing a downward falling path for trapped ENERGY LOCK lifeless dead gas molecules/solid objects only. Equating the above FACT with the physical universe, same as Einstein's E = MC2 equates with the physical universe. E = ENERGY = MM = MOLECULE MOTION = Molecules in motion within star flames earth gases birds and balloons plains and rocket's, even us humans rise from molecules in motion creating an ENERGY FLOW, the ruling force of the universe. M = MASS = GB = GAS BONDING = Gas Bonding take on a state of solid mass blocking out its electrons motion, it's fire power, thus becomes ENERGY LOCK lifeless dead gas molecules, and falls downward in real time. C2 = LIGHT SPEED = E = ELECTRONS = Electrons Unlimited Potential Velocity at the speed of light connects with the earth ENERGY CONSERVATION SYSTEM, establishing a downward falling path for trapped ENERGY LOCK lifeless dead gas molecules/ solid objects only. Gravity is a mythical concept that's mentally applied by Newton, solely to guarantee needed results to it's point of origin , the BRAIN ! ====================== Unlike the mythical Gravity, Planets orbital motion is a physical act of ENERGY CONSERVATION in real time, conserving SUNLIGHT PHOTONS ENERGY to obtain and mentain it's orbital motion with upgrades in the now streamlining its Velocity and spacing . ==================== Water do not evaporate ! SUNLIGHT ENERGY splits the water molecules freeing the oxygen hydrogen gases, which then by its molecules in motion rise upwards into the atmosphere to again continue it GAS BONDING cycle making new water, which is now a state of solid mass with trapped gas molecules, and falls downward as RAINDROPS ! Temperature splits water molecules same as it does to solid burning object's seen as gas smoke rising.

Who are these “thinking” scientists you speak of?

@@toddymcgann5856 Flat earthers.. hahaha

@@excelsistenz lol haha

Explain?

lol GPS is a religion then.. hahaha.. you know whats religion? Flat earthers...