Black Hole Movies, Digital Heart Twins, and World Cup Tech
EP 48
·34:30

The future of high-resolution astronomy

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34:30>> because then we can just res we can start resolving like crazy things. Not just the black hole, right? But like just imagine like like um resolving features in Andromeda. Like all of the nebula that we have like the the Horsehead Nebula, the Orion Nebula, the Pillars of Creation, all of that is in the Milky Way, right? Imagine being able to resolve those types of star creating regions in Andromeda for example and seeing like similar structures uh in M87 even you know that I think that would be it would be insane. So that's like kind of a frontier of astronomy that is um that is just like ripe but but it it involves like physics and engineering to

35:11happen first. Um anyways it was a long sojourn. So now we've got the event horizon telescope 2019 it came out with that photo but it's been seven years. So it's been taking data this whole time >> and now finally >> it has released >> a video of our black hole >> which >> the M87 black hole >> which looks beautiful. >> Yeah, this is a video this is a video over 6 years of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. >> This is so outrageous. >> Billions of light years. This is so outrageous. >> I mean, sorry. Billions of solar masses. >> Right. Right. >> Right. Um 55 million lighty years away.

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