This image is polarization lines drawn over the original to attempt to give more detail. You can see the original behind it
From the article:
The lines mark the orientation of polarization, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole.
Really cool, but just not what OPs headline says
One of my worst pet peeves is people claiming renders from scientific data are the same as a photograph. Amazing how I figured it out in highschool and I’m still seeing headlines banking on this misconception.
A digital photograph is also a render from data, change my mind.
And inside is a single planet that defies logic, and on that planet is God with a capital G. He wants a starship to escape the planet and can be killed by a few photon torpedoes.
I feel your pain, share it with me
Or if you go back a little farther, inside is a planet where magic is real run by the actual Lucifer and Asmodeus.
Man, the Animated Series is wild.
Which series?
Star Trek: The Animated Series.
This is the coolest thing I’m gonna see/read all day.
Here’s the magnetic field of Op’s mom
Your mom jokes are like photons, they never get old.
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The first image was of radio signals so not exactly “light” as we’d think of it typically. This is supposedly polarized light so technically an “actual image” in the way we think of pictures involving light.
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“clear image”