A donut on the Moon

15:17>> Yeah. If you took like one of those mini donuts from uh uh Dunkin Donuts >> and you put it on the moon, >> that's how big those black hole donuts would be. >> Jesus. >> Does that make sense? That's crazy. [laughter] >> That's crazy that that's what we're imaging. Like if you if you want to put it into terrestrial terms and and just you're saying we put a munchkin >> Mhm. >> on the moon. >> Yeah. And then we imaged it >> from from here from ground and we're looking at a munchkin on the moon. >> Yeah, >> that's what we're talking about. >> That's what we're talking about. And if you want to put it into terrestrial terms, um it's

15:58like an ant >> on the Empire State Building viewed from Los Angeles, >> which for those who are not familiar with the US geography is >> that's across the continent. >> It's across the continent. >> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. Okay. or like or like from New York to Paris. Okay. You could do you could do that if you wanted, >> which is so I think the point you're trying to point out here is the level of precision over the scale of distance is outrageous on its face. >> Yes. On its it's it's incredible. And Right. And the thing is that donut, it wasn't just a donut. We could see details in the donut. So the resolution we're getting is like insane. Right. We're getting sprinkles on the donut.

16:39Like which side has sprinkles? Is it Boston cream? Is it sprinkles? Like, is it what is the one that has the little crumpled edges on it? Like, >> oh, I hate those. [laughter] >> I only like glazed. Plain plain glazed. >> But it's it's it's incredible that we're able to do this, right? And to give you an idea, right? >> Um, we've actually covered the um the tyranny of resolution when it comes to astronomy plenty of times on this podcast. Um there's a fundamental physics issue with trying to resolve stuff. Okay. Yeah. Um light at the end