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/War_Daddy_992 Jan 16 '22

Imagine being a super massive black hole, largest in the galaxy

Only to be turned into a meme by a bunch of weird monkeys on some random back water planet

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u/blackbart1 Jan 17 '22

Mostly harmless.

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u/War_Daddy_992 Jan 17 '22 edited Jan 17 '22

From a meme from when someone did create a digital image of a black

*earth human monkey laughing noises

*sad black hole