thats just fucking amazing, as a big Sci Fi nut this just makes me giddy like a kid at a toy store.

Yeah, the mathematics is there~
It has a ring of particles/radiation orbiting the singularity, like Saturn or whatnot, and the immense gravity bends the light so you can see it vertically too. It's cool as heck that it looks pretty much exactly like they predicted :p

Yep you are right.

It’s because they had actual physicists supervise with the visual effects crew in Interstellar. Like they used computer simulations of black holes as their models. Plus the whole movie before was pitched by an actual theoretical physicist Kip Thorne before Christopher Nolan decided to do it. But yeah, really great that it’s everything physicists have predicted on what a black hole looks like. I am still excited by the image.

Kip Thorne for the win!

That's the funny thing about math and science. Computing power and graphic rendering capacity is reaching the point where they can make modestly accurate visual representations of cosmic phenomena. Stuff that we've had no direct visual evidence of until now. Just inferred evidence that some amazing brainy fucks took the question of "What would it take to do this to the things we can observe?", and map it out across miles of chalkboard until they were pretty damn certain what it would take to create a divot in the space time continuum so deep that not even light can escape it.

It took almost fifty years for computers to catch up with what physicists have had scrawled in their notebooks.

Can only imagine the sense of satisfaction among the astronomy community, especially those that worked so hard to make visuals a lay person could understand.

And my anxiety just went up to 100.

Meh.. your anxiety should have been above 200 already.
From galaxy sterilizing jets of plasma from supermassive x-ray binaries to "tiny" passing massive objects "just" FUBAR-ing the orbits of entire solar systems, the universe has never been what you would call safe.

You two should not be scared of this black hole, even the smaller one at the center of our galaxy. They're too far to have any affect on us. In fact, it would have to be closer than the sun to have any influence. If the sun suddenly became a black hole of similar size to the sun, the planets would still happily orbit around it. The only time you should worry is if the jets are facing us, and its within a light year.

Yeah, seriously. We have more to worry about from our next nearest neighboring star going super nova. Proxima Centauri and the Alpha Centauri are only 4.2-4.37 light years away, and the energized cloud of cast off solar radiation would still fry earth like someone put it in a giant gamma ray powered microwave. (Granted, none of them are even large enough to go super nova.)

The main thing we'd have to worry about are rogue planets and other large bodies that get flung off interacting with the Kuiper belt, sending several near-Pluto sized objects into the solar system. Saturn and Jupiter moreso would probably catch most of them. But the sudden perturbations to the earth's orbit if they made it deeper into the solar system could get unpleasant.

*watches Jazzanova's anxiety go up to 1100*

Oh, we have much more immediate concerns that we can actually do something about. If the universe wants to throw another roughly Mars-sized object to sideswipe us like it did before, not much we can do but enjoy the fireworks. We keep on jacking up the global average temperature, and we'll have a much more prolonged suffering death.

At least the universe has the courtesy to make the death it doles out along the lines of: "Oh, that's pret--"

I think interstellar wasn' the only thing onto this. Nearly every black hole depiction has been pretty close if this is anything to go by.

All I can say is, this is amazing now that we may very well be seeing what these things look like. It's just another nice piece to an overly complex puzzle that is our universe. :D certainly amazing.

Oh, fer sure!

Check out this one made in 1979 by French scientist Jean-Pierre Luminet. He did the math on an IBM punch-card computer and plotted the data by hand with India ink.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/19.....ierre-luminet/

Man, that's wild.
Kinda looks like an eye.

Based on the same thing, but in motion! 1991, no less:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Oqop50ltrM
(shows the gravitational distortion effect)

I have heard of the black hole. It does look a little different from the movies but this is sufficient proof of what the black hole does look like when one sees it at a near distance.

And so is Albert Einstein vindicated.

It's nice to see that all the predictions were finally shown to be right, after all. This was such an important part of modern cosmology, that it goes up against almost any scientific discovery of the past 300 years.

But I did see a bumper sticker the other day that read, "Black Holes SUCK."

The funny thing is that the one in the movie should actually have had the side that was rotating away from the camera angle red shifting, since it would take longer for the light from that side to actually reach the viewer. I assume they didn't because that would actually have been harder to believe than wormholes.

Yeah, with Interstellar, they used actual physicists, and the visual appearance of the black hole in the movie was slightly modified from the actual mathematical prediction by the physicist of what a black hole would look like.

they both kinda seems ok but I mostly like the one on the right a bit but that's just me.