Getting The First Pic Of An Event Horizon?

[Nefaro]

Fingers crossed.


Astronomers to Peer Into a Black Hole for 1st Time with Event Horizon Telescope
By Carole Mundell, University of Bath | March 26, 2017 08:37am ET


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On April 5-14 2017, the team behind the Event Horizon Telescope hopes to test the fundamental theories of black-hole physics by attempting to take the first ever image of a black hole's event horizon (the point at which theory predicts nothing can escape). By connecting a global array of radio telescopes together to form the equivalent of a giant Earth-sized telescope – using a technique known as Very Long Baseline Interferometry and Earth-aperture synthesis – scientists will peer into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy where a black hole that is 4m times more massive than our sun – Sagittarius A* – lurks.

Astronomers know there is a disk of dust and gas orbiting around the black hole. The path the light from this material takes will be distorted in the gravitational field of the black hole. Its brightness and colour are also expected to be altered in predictable ways. The tell-tale signature astronomers hope to see with the Event Horizon Telescope is a bright crescent shape rather than a disk. And they may even see the shadow of the black hole's event horizon against the backdrop of this brightly shining swirling material.


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http://www.space.com/36209-astronomers-will-peer-inside-black-event-horizon-telescope.html

[Gusington]

Is Sam Neill in there somewhere?

[mirth]

Is Sam Neill in there somewhere?

I saw Laurence Fishburne.

[DoctorQuest]

Is Sam Neill in there somewhere?

Or that damned creepy red robot?  :hide:

[mirth]

Or that damned creepy red robot?  :hide:

HK-47?

[Staggerwing]

Wasn't there a thread floating around somewhere which posits that 'Event Horizon' may be a sort of 'ancestor' to every story in the WH40K-verse? The titular ship even looks like it was made from parts of a basilica:

[Gusington]

My brain just reached its first event horizon for the day.

[Nefaro]

Or that damned creepy red robot?  :hide:

HK-47?

HK-47 isn't creepy.  He's downright adorable.   :dreamer:

Wasn't there a thread floating around somewhere which posits that 'Event Horizon' may be a sort of 'ancestor' to every story in the WH40K-verse? The titular ship even looks like it was made from parts of a basilica:

I've seen the discussions before, and wondered about it myself.

Wasn't sure just how far the Warp travel + chaos theme had advanced by the time the movie was made.  IMDB says it came out in 1997, so it was probably being created in '96.  Did WH40K have all it's current Warp themes by that point in time?  Did the writer(s) repackage the demonic warp travel theme from 40k, or was it the other way around? 

Most of my knowledge about it, in the 90s, came from one of the earliest 40K manuals I had purchased back in the late '80s.  Never really got into tabletop mini games, so I certainly didn't continue buying 40k manuals into the '90s.  WH40k was pretty different back then, compared to today, including the lore.  I don't recall the warp/chaos demon relationship being present in it's earlier edition, but it's been a long time and I didn't commit much of it to memory at the time.

Maybe some of you can remember where the WH40k lore sat on the subject, back in '96?





Also.. excellent movie background YT channel, with lots of interesting factoid tidbits about the creation of specific films.  Here's one on EH:

[bayonetbrant]

sorry, but I found the EH movie to be kind of "ugh"- I just didn't enjoy it at all


The Black Hole, on the other hand, had promise, but crammed 45-minute TV show into a 2-hour movie

[mirth]

sorry, but I found the EH movie to be kind of "ugh"- I just didn't enjoy it at all

+1 It wasn't very good.

[DoctorQuest]

Or that damned creepy red robot?  :hide:

HK-47?

No. Maximillian from The Black Hole.

[Gusington]

When it first came out Event Horizon terrified me. I recently watched it again on Netflix and didn't appreciate it as much. Still enjoyed it though.

[JasonPratt]

Space Hulk in 1993 talked about the chaos problems of warp travel; I'm pretty sure the rulebook mentioned demons along the way although the game naturally didn't focus on that topic.

[MetalDog]

Saw EH in the movies.  It was plenty scary then.  Like Gus, I just recently watched again on Netflix.  I watched it with my daughter and she really liked it.  Helped me to retain some of my like for it, too.

[JasonPratt]

As for the Chaos Marines, the Vengeance of the Blood Angels in 1995 definitely featured them (I double-checked the date to be sure of the time, and also if my memories of Chaos Marines was correct), so they must have been around for at least some time before that. The Gothic-horror architecture had certainly been around earlier, so far as the boardgame of Space Hulk is concerned.

Considering that Paul Anderson was an avid game player, any influence would have run that way at first. But of course the GW crew could also have borrowed themes when expanding later.