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What a black hole really looks like #259037 10/30/14 12:22 PM
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,445 London, England Marcus Rowland OP Kerth
OP Marcus Rowland Kerth Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,445 London, England	An unexpected byproduct of making the new movie Interstellar; they used real physics to model the black hole, with hundreds of terabytes of data and a huge rendering farm, probably the most computing power ever thrown at a real astronomical simulation. The result is apparently the most accurate model yet of what a black hole looks like. Which turns out to be a little different from expectations: http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsand...tellar-leads-to-new-scientific-discovery No idea if the movie is any good, but at least some parts of the science should be right. Marcus L. Rowland Forgotten Futures, The Scientific Romance Role Playing Game

Re: What a black hole really looks like Marcus Rowland #259042 10/30/14 01:08 PM
Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 9,509 USA VirginiaR Nobel Peace Prize Winner
VirginiaR Nobel Peace Prize Winner Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 9,509 USA	Now that they know this, will they look back at Hubble and other views into space and see if anyone has ever spotted one before and never realized it, I wonder. VirginiaR. "On the long road, take small steps." -- Jor-el, "The Foundling" --- "clearly there is a lack of understanding between those two... he speaks Lunkheadanian and she Stubbornanian" -- chelo.

Re: What a black hole really looks like Marcus Rowland #259067 10/31/14 12:05 PM
Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 1,114 California Annie B. Top Banana
Annie B. Top Banana Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 1,114 California	I passed this on to the science teacher at my school. He thought it was pretty cool. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.” - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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