![]() ![]() “If you asked Einstein what the ramifications of the theory of relativity would be, he’d have no answer,” Doeleman said. The imagery is inspiring, Lonsdale said, especially for young people who see it and may want to emulate the work, thereby “feeding” the STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – pipeline.īut investing in Event Horizon isn’t just about inspiring new generations, it’s about having a chance to answer the deepest fundamental questions about our universe. Some 4.5 billion people saw Messier 87 when the image was published. “Investing in something speculative and high-risk pays off,” Colin Lonsdale, director of the MIT Haystack Observatory, said Thursday. On Thursday, House Democrats released a spending bill that would pump an additional $561 million into the foundation, a direct rebuke to President Donald Trump’s plan to cut its budget by roughly $1 billion for fiscal year 2020.Ĭommittee Chairman Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texas Democrat, asked the experts plainly: why does it matter that the United States invests in a program with no guarantee of results or success? The National Science Foundation has largely funded all research for the Event Horizon program. He said black holes can pierce entire galaxies and disrupt star formations, and they sit at the center of everything that makes the night sky look the way it does. Scientists want to see how matter moves inside of these “ferocious engines” of the universe, Doeleman said. The next step, Doeleman explained, was to increase the number of telescopes and radio satellites to expand observation capability and eventually shoot live-action video of the black hole. Now, we’re using the edge of a black hole that nature itself presents us.” Normally, you’d have to build a super collider to probe the unknown. We’re using the most intense cosmic laboratory to understand the universe. It wasn’t the end of astronomy but the beginning. “Imagine when Galileo was looking through the first telescope. “This is the tip of the iceberg,” Doeleman said. ![]() But this giant leap is only the first of many that will be made now that Messier 87 has had its first – relatively speaking – close-up. Two hundred scientists and researchers and 60 institutions spread over 20 countries joined together to complete the feat of engineering and astrophysics. “The look on the face of my colleagues when the first images appeared on computers will never leave me: it was astonishment, wonder, pride, awe and humility,” Sheperd Doeleman, director of the Event Horizon Telescope program, told members of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee on Thursday. The Event Horizon Telescope, a massive planet-size array of telescopes connected over a global network, combined electromagnetic wave data and advanced imaging techniques to produce the world’s first-ever look at a black hole.ĭespite it being 53.5 million light years away, the telescope array – an endeavor some 20 years in the making – captured awe-inspiring images of Messier 87, a supergiant black hole that holds a mass greater than our own sun by 6.5 billion times. On Thursday, scientists told Congress they are ready to go even deeper into the reaches of the universe’s greatest cosmic mysteries. ALL ENTRIES ARE LOGGED.WASHINGTON (CN) – Capturing an image of a black hole was considered impossible just a generation ago but an international collaboration produced that very impossibility last month. ![]() Entrance to site is expressly on these conditions which embodies all of the understandings and obligations between the parties hereto. ![]() By entering this site you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this agreement. In the event that an infringement is discovered you will be notified and invoiced at the minimum 10x the STANDARD FEE for unauthorized usage and/or prosecuted for Copyright Infringement in U S Federal Court where you will be subject to a fine of US$150,000 statutory damages as well as all court costs and attorneys' fees. Seth Resnick Photography vigorously protects copyright interests. Use of any image as the basis for another photographic concept or illustration is a violation of copyright. The intellectual property may not be copied to another computer, transmitted, published, reproduced, stored, manipulated, projected, or altered in any way, including without limitation any digitization or synthesizing of the images, alone or with any other material, by use of computer or other electronic means or any other method or means now or hereafter known, without the written permission of Seth Resnick and payment of a fee or arrangement thereof. The intellectual property MAY NOT BE DOWNLOADED except by normal viewing process of the browser. All photographs, text and html coding appearing in the Seth Resnick Photography site are the exclusive intellectual property of Seth Resnick and are protected under United States and international copyright laws. ![]()
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