✨ As someone who's spent the better part of the last decade working on the camera, NIRCam, that took the picture...tomorrow's images are going to be even more gorgeous, let me tell you. – RubixsQube, speaking in the James Webb Space Telescope first images thread. (!!)
Discworld by CarbonNYC [in SF!] (cc by)
Black hole time! PhysicsMatt answers why the accretion disk is a disk rather than a sphere, and RedOrGreen explains a bit about interferometry (and other stuff) in the Mefi thread on the reveal of the first black hole image.
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