What was @Slate thinking in publishing this piece on the historic image of a black hole by Heather Schwedel?
“In addition to not being “real,” it’s so blurry. Haven’t these scientists ever heard of filters, or enhancing?”https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/black-hole-photo-just-isnt-very-good.html …
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This line really blew me away. ”And yet the blurriness hasn’t stopped writers from waxing poetic about the image, like the New York Times comparing the black hole to the “Eye of Sauron”—which is a Lord of the Rings thing, I Googled it.”
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And not like it would make any difference in impressing the author, they had to make a correction in stating the black hole is 6.5 BILLION times the size of our sun vs 6.5 million, as originally reported.pic.twitter.com/S2H8zYVLKv
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