First ever real image of a black hole

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To be fair, time is relative so if we moved at 99.99999999999999% the speed of light we would arrive in a little less than a year.

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u/Froot-Loop-Dingus Apr 10 '19

This hurts my brain so much.

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u/Rambus_Jarbus Apr 16 '19

Wait, wait, wait, the ship traveling would only experience a year of the 50 million light years? So when he gets there he would still be alive (besides the fact of being at a black hole)? I thought even at the SOL it would take 50 million years. Or is that only relative to us on Earth?

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u/Hrothgarex Apr 16 '19

Relative to us on Earth. If the ship came back everything would be longggg gone. To those on the ship it would have been less than two years.

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u/Rambus_Jarbus Apr 16 '19

I did not realize that. Thank you for clearing this up for me. I always thought even if you were traveling the speed of light it would take 50 million years. But it would only be 50 million years for us back on Earth. Fascinating.

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u/ythoo Jul 22 '22

Im probably being thick, but if the journey is meant to be 50million years long, how does it only feel like 2? I never really understood time dilation, the journey would only feel like 2 years for them??

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u/themosh54 Apr 10 '19

Toooo beee faiiirrrruh

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u/sweetgreggo Apr 11 '19

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