{"id":8349,"date":"2017-04-05T12:06:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T19:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8349"},"modified":"2017-04-09T12:25:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T19:25:42","slug":"black-hole-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/05\/black-hole-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Hole Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431204-200-earthsized-telescope-set-to-snap-first-picture-of-a-black-hole\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from New Scientist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Earth-sized telescope set to snap first picture of a black hole<\/h1>\n<p><strong>The Event Horizon Telescope will take images of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, and could reveal how relativity and quantum mechanics mesh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Leah Crane<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VvC1dzDZCn4\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>GET ready to peer into the unknown. This week, we will have our first chance to take a picture of the supermassive black hole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20727780-900-whats-eating-the-stars-out-of-our-galaxys-heart\/\" target=\"_blank\">at the centre of our galaxy<\/a>. The image could teach us how black holes work and even how the largest and smallest forces governing the universe fit together.<\/p>\n<p>The Event Horizon Telescope is switching on. It consists of eight radio observatories around the world, including telescopes in Spain, the US and Antarctica <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/d1o50x50snmhul.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mg31204201.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-rel=\"lightbox-0\">(see map)<\/a>. And for just four or five nights between 5 and 14 April, if the weather is clear at all of the observatories, they will all turn on at once.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">\u201cEvent horizons have been part of the mythology of science, but they will become real\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each telescope will point at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn24125-astrophile-milky-ways-black-hole-is-a-picky-eater\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sagittarius A*<\/a>, the supermassive black hole at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21328586-800-milky-way-mysteries-five-oddities-of-our-galaxy\/\" target=\"_blank\">centre of the Milky Way<\/a>, and measure every radio wave coming from its direction. Linking together observatories spread across such a huge area and combining their observations to filter out extra light will effectively create a powerful \u201cvirtual telescope\u201d almost the size of Earth.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431204-200-earthsized-telescope-set-to-snap-first-picture-of-a-black-hole\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at New Scientist<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from New Scientist Earth-sized telescope set to snap first picture of a black hole The Event Horizon Telescope will take images of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, and could reveal how relativity and quantum mechanics mesh By Leah Crane GET ready to peer into the unknown. This week, we will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}