The image of M87's supermassive black hole released by the Event Horizon Telescope on April 10th 2019 is not just a pretty picture. Here I run down 5 reasons why we care about this result and what more it can help us understand.
00:00 Introduction
00:30 - 1 - The first glimpse of an event horizon 00:30
03:43 - 2 - Testing General Relativity
06:25 - 3 - Testing how black holes grow
07:53 - 4 - Small scale = large scale
10:07 - 5 - Proof of concept
13:40 - What's next?
15:46 - Bloopers
Here are the academic journal papers released with the image (free access): iopscience.iop.org/journal/20...
My Direct Collapse Black Hole video: • Unsolved Mystery in Ph...
Katie Bouman's TED talk on the computer algorithm used to produce the image: www.ted.com/talks/katie_bouma...
My appearance on Channel 4 News (!): • First ever image of bl...
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Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist researching galaxies and supermassive black holes at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.
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