random school memories

[fat lesbian]

im copying and pasting this from a comment I made on fb

“this is a joke post but it’s also very important because it’s a visual confirmation of a region of spacetime that conforms exactly to einsteins predictions. the fact that the shadow cast is round means that the event horizon is spherical which confirms the presence of an event horizon, and with the radius of that event horizon we can solve for the mass contained in the region. and it was consistent with what we thought!

This is another confirmation of general relativity which is absolutely huge, it also does a lot to confirm some of the theories regarding black holes and galaxy formation, AND it confirmed that stellar mass and supermassive black holes both conform to their own sets of rules. They both have the same sets of fundamental properties (mass, spin, and charge) which also means that they will evaporate via Hawking radiation in much the same way as micro black holes (but those evaporate instantly because the rate at which they evaporate is inversely proportional to mass). This has implications for the understandings of dark matter and dark energy and actually just like. Lol this is just a big deal for astrophysics because we don’t have to just assume it’s true anymore and it narrows a lot of things down“

And that it’s as clear as it is is tbh fucking incredible. this was compiled from so much data the hard drives were physically mailed because it would take longer to send it over the internet