{"id":20926,"date":"2020-01-30T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=20926"},"modified":"2020-01-30T14:32:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:32:18","slug":"space-sciences-roundup-jan-29-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=20926","title":{"rendered":"Space sciences roundup – Jan.29.2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images from space-related science news items (find previous roundups here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Astronomy<\/strong><\/p>\n

** What Does a Black Hole Look Like: How We Got Our First Picture<\/strong> –\u00a0 Dr. Eliot Quataert of the University of California, Berkeley gave this recent Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture:<\/p>\n

Black holes are one of the most remarkable predictions of Einstein’s theory of gravity: so much material is compressed into such a small volume that nothing, not even light, can escape. In Spring 2019, the world-wide Event Horizon Telescope released the first real picture of gas around a massive black hole and the \u201cshadow\u201d it makes as the gas swirls into the black hole. Dr. Quataert describes how these pioneering observations were made and what they have taught us about black<\/em><\/p>\n