30 thoughts on “One Small Hole For Man”

  5. mick

    I always wanted to know what the fiscal space looked like after the national children hospital cock up happened

    1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

      Jaykers tonight, wha’? My eyes widened when I read about dem tings yesterday.

    2. Brother Barnabas

      i was about to make an undeniably superb gag about a jap’s eye in response to your comment, but I learned recently that it’s a racist term

  7. Junkface

    That’s really Cool! I wonder will there be clearer images, or is that the best it can be captured by a camera?

    2. scottser

      Apparently with the tech they used, you could read a newspaper in New York from Paris. The black hole is fifty billion times bigger than the sun, and they get bigger every day. It’s only a few galaxies over so realistically that bad boy will swallow us all one day. Can I be the first to say
      BEHOLD YOUR DOOM!!!

  8. eoin

    How much of our money did we give to the National Science Foundation Ireland for this image? Was it €10 million + ?

      1. mick

        Nothing compared to the Israelis that have launched a landing craft to the moon for 70 million dollars
        Its orbiting the moon and set to land April 11th

        1. realPolithicks

          Bisted will be along soon to tell you that the Zionists are illegally occupying the Moon.

          1. bisted

            …au contraire…the zionist project has failed here so a move to the moon seems like a fine solution…

        2. Cian

          “the Israelis that have launched a landing craft to the moon for 70 million dollars”
          No. SpaceX launched a €70m Israeli landing craft into space.

  11. Slightly Bemused

    This is truly fascinating! Worth every penny spent on it. While the benefits may not be immediate, the expansion of our knowledge makes this picture literally priceless.

    Thanks again to Bodger & co for posting these wonderful pictures and information!

  12. Starina

    i remember when I was but a tot, black holes were still an unproven theory. (as was the link between dinosaurs and birds) This might just be a blurry photo but it is truly a marvel.

    To quote Nick Cave…
    Well, most of all nothing much ever really happens
    And God rides high up in the ordinary sky
    Until we find ourselves at out most distracted
    And the miracle that was promised creeps quietly by

    1. Spaghetti Hoop

      I remember staying up late to watch Patrick Moore’s Sky at Night. He spent a great deal of the series talking about black holes. I think I wrote to him with some questions – never got a reply. Kinda relieved about that when I discovered his political beliefs.

          1. Brother Barnabas

            apologies millie

            I was merely alluding to the fact that patrick moore subsequently revealed a predilection for inserting rolled up paper into his anus

            that’s of course not to say that the young Hoop’s letters ended up there

            sorry

    2. Junkface

      After further reading, I’m not sure its a blurry photo, because what we are looking at in that image is something the size of an entire Galaxy!! Its 40 billion KM across! The scale is almost beyond imagination.

      Science is mind blowing.

  13. ReproBertie

    “But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.”

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