Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/26/nasa-releases-new-visualizatio.html
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I stared at the animation over coffee this morning.
Late to work today.
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With the time dilation, is it “objects in the mirror may be younger then they appear”? Older?
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Just watch Interstellar.
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The math artists of Interstellar:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/32/6/065001
Gravitational lensing by spinning black holes in astrophysics, and in the movie Interstellar
Oliver James, Eugénie von Tunzelmann, Paul Franklin and Kip S Thorne
Look up that last name if it is not familiar.
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Thanks, now I have a new desktop background!
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NASA’S been tweeting images and articles for Black Hole Week, and I’m loving it. I’ve been fascinated by black holes (and astronomy in general) since I was a little kid. 
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I can’t figure out who said it first, but, while black holes can eat, they can’t hunt. As I understand it, it would be extremely difficult to actually get yourself into a black hole. Although maybe your concern is simply the intense radiation coming from the accretion disk?
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For some reason this came to mind.
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Or the tides stretching you into a spaghetti noodle.
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Interstellar employed Kip Thorne, one of the foremost authorities on black holes, as a scientific consultant.
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More fake news, according to conservatives (Andrew Schlafly):
https://www.conservapedia.com/Black_hole
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OMG, this line, WTF…
Black holes are conceptually associated with “wormholes”,[4] which never caught on with the public, perhaps due to its unattractive terminology.
The “pop culture” section of the entry DOESN’T EVEN MENTION DEEP SPACE NINE, WHAT ASSHOLES.
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That is a fascinating website…
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In that it’s made by a bunch of conservatives who think that wikipedia has a liberal bias… but it’s also kind of scary, because people will read shit like that and believe it.
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FTA: with heavy reliance on theoretical equations.
Ah, there’s the good old right-wingnut distrust of math.
Ignorance I can abide; it’s the condition everyone begins with on anything. Willful ignorance is just contemptible.
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“Trustworthy”, like “moral” when self-applied, tells you everything you need to know.
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How … how does astrophysics have a “liberal bias”?
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