r/spaceporn • u/npjprods • Jan 16 '22

The first simulated image of a black hole, calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978 Pro/Processed

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u/lajoswinkler Jan 16 '22

It changed the way the media portrays black holes. The media is a product of the least intellect, work and most greed. It's a bussiness. That's why nobody cared.

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u/Paradoxou Jan 16 '22

Uh you got an example? I can't remember any media trying to paint black holes as anything else than... black holes

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u/lajoswinkler Jan 16 '22

That's what I'm saying. Nobody cared to show it as anything but a 2D hole with a whirl around it.

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u/Paradoxou Jan 16 '22

But have you got an example?

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u/lajoswinkler Jan 16 '22

Any space pew pew film... any newspaper illustration. Don't make me look for examples of something obvious, please.

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u/Paradoxou Jan 16 '22

Movies are medias?

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u/lajoswinkler Jan 16 '22

Well yeah... It is a type of media.

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u/Seakawn Jan 16 '22

Media is a pretty broad concept. You can fit a lot of stuff under the umbrella of that term's definition.