The First Photo Of A Black Hole Inspires Education And Shenanigans

By Jodi Smith | Social Media | April 10, 2019 |

By Jodi Smith | Social Media | April 10, 2019 |

What a time to be alive! The first ever photo of a black hole was taken and shared with the world and the response has been all over the place? As Genny put it in Slack, “Because the internet has democratized access to information but not the knowledge needed to comprehend it.”

You're looking at the first ever image of a black hole. It was captured by the #NSFFunded @ehtelescope project. #ehtblackhole #RealBlackHole https://t.co/6dglvqrvOs pic.twitter.com/0hclANf4tc

— National Science Foundation (@NSF) April 10, 2019

We have all the power at our fingertips to learn more about black holes, why this photograph is such a big moment for science, and how the whole thing even works. Some of us take that opportunity and mete out more information to the masses. The rest? I hope you like jokes, because that’s what the internet does, kids.

I’ve put together a nice mix of both, nice and balanced like the knife Thanos gave to Gamora before he committed genocide.

Been there, done it . #EventHorizon #BlackHole https://t.co/AKp8no6HTd

— Sam Neill (@TwoPaddocks) April 10, 2019

1969: Margaret Hamilton alongside the code that got us to the moon
2019: Katie Bouman alongside the data that got us to the black hole pic.twitter.com/aIPOtdfA3F

— Ben Halpern 🤗 (@bendhalpern) April 10, 2019

How long until the black hole gets milkshake ducked

— Dad (@fivefifths) April 10, 2019

#ICYMI Watch: What you need to know about #BlackHole pic.twitter.com/qhhKwujjz8

— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) April 10, 2019

In honor of the black hole… #BlackHoles #blackhole pic.twitter.com/WozfAMSqL2

— Lunarbaboon (@Lunarbaboon) April 10, 2019

Underwhelmed by #blackhole pic? Yes it's huge at ~40 billion km across. But at 55 MILLION LY away, the ring is ~40 μarcsec across. That's ~1/50,000,000 the Moon's diameter! And it's not visible light, it's radio waves. You need to appreciate these limits. Astrophysics is hard.

— Sophia Gad-Nasr 🏳️‍🌈 (@Astropartigirl) April 10, 2019

seeing the 1st picture of a black hole ever taken moodboard pic.twitter.com/jkn8wBTF8A

— Maryne. (@MaryneeLahaye) April 10, 2019

The truth. #BlackHole pic.twitter.com/j9SYnZAXBx

— Bot Xeief ist einsatzbereit! (@xeief) April 10, 2019

Relevant #xkcd related to the scale of M87's supermassive black hole scale vs out Solar System https://t.co/ZmcYfbzDJS pic.twitter.com/kiCDOYCWDy

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 10, 2019

Event Horizon Telescope image of a black hole, released 2019. Cover of Soundgarden's album "Superunknown", featuring "Black Hole Sun" released 1994. What am I supposed to do with this information? #BlackHoleDay pic.twitter.com/xpEDGAP43L

— Krishna Sai Andavolu (@kandavolu) April 10, 2019