Re: First Picture If A Black Hole

2019-04-11 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 09:34:54AM -0700, Philip Thrift wrote: > [...] > (About the foot note, not the black hole.) > > > Unix indeed has the Buddha nature. > > Microsoft has made available Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). > - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux > >

Re: First Picture If A Black Hole

2019-04-11 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 6:55:55 PM UTC-5, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 09:32:32AM -0400, John Clark wrote: > > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/science/black-hole-picture.html > > > > Also, here: > > https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1907/ > > -- > Regards, >

Re: First Picture If A Black Hole

2019-04-11 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 5:40 AM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: *> I looked up the mass of M87 BH and I find 2.5 billion solar masses.* > I believe that figure was from an old measurement, M87's Black Hole is now thought to be 6.6*10^9 solar masses +- 0.4. THE BLACK

Re: First Picture If A Black Hole

2019-04-11 Thread Lawrence Crowell
I don't know why I got millions reduced to thousands and billions to millions. I looked up the mass of M87 BH and I find 2.5 billion solar masses. LC On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 7:12:13 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 7:46 PM Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > >

Re: First Picture If A Black Hole

2019-04-10 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 7:46 PM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We will have to see what the Sgr*A image looks like of the Milky Way BH > that is smaller, 104 thousand solar masses vs 2.5 million solar masses for > M87*, but is closer only 27K light years, vs 55

Re: First Picture If A Black Hole

2019-04-10 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 09:32:32AM -0400, John Clark wrote: > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/science/black-hole-picture.html > Also, here: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1907/ -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the

Re: First Picture If A Black Hole

2019-04-10 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 8:33:09 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/science/black-hole-picture.html > > John K Clark > The image is constructed from a radio telescopic interferometer. The colors are in effect codes for the intensity of radiation coming off