{"id":221298,"date":"2019-04-11T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T07:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=221298"},"modified":"2019-04-11T12:30:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T07:30:01","slug":"the-first-ever-photo-of-a-black-hole-is-already-becoming-the-latest-viral-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/the-first-ever-photo-of-a-black-hole-is-already-becoming-the-latest-viral-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Ever Photo of a Black Hole is Already Becoming the Latest Viral Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a historic day for science. We just photographed our first black hole, an object that is\u00a0supposed to be &#8216;unobservable&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks\u00a0to an MIT grad student Katie Bouman who developed the algorithm used for the Event Horizon Telescope, we now have the first look at a blackhole which is 55 million light years away.<\/p>\n<p>Lets take a look at this remarkable woman who made this discovery possible:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to Katie Bouman to whom we owe the first photograph of a black hole ever. Not seeing her name circulate nearly enough in the press. <\/p>\n<p>Amazing work. And here\u2019s to more women in science (getting their credit and being remembered in history) \ud83d\udca5\ud83d\udd25\u2604\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wcPhB6E5qK\">pic.twitter.com\/wcPhB6E5qK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tamy Emma Pepin (@TamyEmmaPepin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TamyEmmaPepin\/status\/1116014974508371971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"speakableTextP2\">How it Happened<\/h3>\n<p class=\"speakableTextP2\">Initially, the Event Horizon Telescope was used to collect the data about the black hole. This is no ordinary telescope, since it involves\u00a0an array of eight radio telescopes around the world working together to create the image (imagine a telescope which is present all around the Earth).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3 years ago MIT grad student Katie Bouman led the creation of a new algorithm to produce the first-ever image of a black hole. <\/p>\n<p>Today, that image was released. <\/p>\n<p>More info: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WITAL1omGl\">https:\/\/t.co\/WITAL1omGl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2016 story: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QV7Zf2snEP\">https:\/\/t.co\/QV7Zf2snEP<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EHTblackhole?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EHTblackhole<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EventHorizonTelescope?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EventHorizonTelescope<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u6FBswmGDZ\">pic.twitter.com\/u6FBswmGDZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MIT_CSAIL\/status\/1115965269392920576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Katie Bouman helped develop the algorithm for the\u00a0<span class=\"link\">Event Horizon Telescope. She\u00a0then<\/span> helped create the image of the black hole and led testing for verification of the images.<\/p>\n<p>Now people are talking about how this will impact\u00a0Albert Einstein&#8217;s theories of gravity and relativity.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/floragraham\/status\/1115973145985454080<\/p>\n<p>Oh and guess what? This black hole photo has gone viral and is now the next runaway meme.<\/p>\n<h3>Celebratory Meme Fest<\/h3>\n<p class=\"speakableTextP2\">Good news or bad, social media has already turned it into a meme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakableTextP2\">Some people pointed out how the black hole looks like\u00a0<span class=\"link\">the<em> Eye of Sauron\u00a0<\/em>(infinite\u00a0power source explained):\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrKohlstedt\/status\/1116218154143879168<\/p>\n<p>Followed by pop culture references:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Earth-chan tries to take pictures of Black Hole-Sensei and her cousin from Galaxy M87. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackHole?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackHole<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EHTBlackHole?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EHTBlackHole<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RealBlackHole?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RealBlackHole<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RdcBmqZvGt\">pic.twitter.com\/RdcBmqZvGt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Froot\ud83d\udc80 (@LichVtuber) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LichVtuber\/status\/1116116141775228933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Rajdhani,Poppins,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/nasa-says-we-can-produce-water-on-the-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA Says We Can Produce Water on the Moon<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wait a minute&#8230;.that&#39;s not a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackHole?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackHole<\/a>&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D9JzulmNhh\">pic.twitter.com\/D9JzulmNhh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CORSAIR (@CORSAIR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CORSAIR\/status\/1116048391929073664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexTheJPEG\/status\/1116107872558096386<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Remember who you are<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackHole?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackHole<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4FH2zpj4Iu\">pic.twitter.com\/4FH2zpj4Iu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Madi (@madddssss132) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/madddssss132\/status\/1116081780593967104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaiLuca\/status\/1116231311579074560<\/p>\n<p>Then we had these everyday memes:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vMaLK0etRb\">pic.twitter.com\/vMaLK0etRb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TangierCurtain (@yaarwtf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yaarwtf\/status\/1116086417757736961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When you don&#39;t want your picture to be taken but humans do it anyways.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackHole?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackHole<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DyramIrKHM\">pic.twitter.com\/DyramIrKHM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Inglorious Potato (@AhsanRohan25) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AhsanRohan25\/status\/1116061732483620867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackHole?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackHole<\/a> discovered and we knew it since ages \ud83c\udf69 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JLGYe9txLl\">pic.twitter.com\/JLGYe9txLl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cup Shup (@CupShup_pk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CupShup_pk\/status\/1116185211438608385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s straight out of a Constantine comic:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/veeallie1\/status\/1116054420016517121<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarmaTheDeermin\/status\/1116179719513411585<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Rajdhani,Poppins,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/meet-the-pakistani-who-started-the-hilarious-major-adnan-sami-meme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet The Pakistani Who Started the Hilarious &#8216;Major Adnan Sami&#8217; Meme<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s this. We may have already found a more &#8216;economic way&#8217; of discovering black holes near us:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WOW!<br \/>Pakistani student photographs black hole with home made setup connected to cloud based super computer.<\/p>\n<p>Also shares his BTS rig details.<\/p>\n<p>Our land has such hidden gems, MashaAllah. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kScWZOFSJk\">pic.twitter.com\/kScWZOFSJk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shehryar Hydri (@sheryhydri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sheryhydri\/status\/1116021869814140929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Even big companies are getting into this meme fest. Here&#8217;s Pepsi with its marketing ploy featuring everyone&#8217;s favorite meme:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What\u2019s on the other side of a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackHole?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackHole<\/a>? All the Flavor. Zero the Sugar. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/science?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#science<\/a> \u261d\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M3AL5sLg1A\">pic.twitter.com\/M3AL5sLg1A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pepsi (@pepsi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pepsi\/status\/1116106304483921920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Live Savers (which really looks similar to a Polo here) also had one:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I can&#39;t be the only one who sees it. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackHole?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackHole<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8KFfllmQzZ\">pic.twitter.com\/8KFfllmQzZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Max the Intern (@_maxtheintern) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_maxtheintern\/status\/1116208751957168130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting way of looking to the past and the present:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuzzoGames\/status\/1116164540058574848<\/p>\n<p>In the end, this day has given us both the first photo of a black hole and a black hole meme (we&#8217;ll be using this all year long like that angry Arab man meme).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Rajdhani,Poppins,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/planet-vs-drone-that-time-the-indian-army-thought-venus-was-a-spy-drone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Planet vs Drone: That Time the Indian Army Thought Venus Was a &#8220;Spy Drone&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a historic day for science. We just photographed our first black hole, an object that is\u00a0supposed to be &#8216;unobservable&#8217;. Thanks\u00a0to an MIT grad student Katie Bouman who developed the algorithm used for the Event Horizon Telescope, we now have the first look at a blackhole which is 55 million light years away. Lets take a look at this [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/the-first-ever-photo-of-a-black-hole-is-already-becoming-the-latest-viral-meme\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":221323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298,2199,1291],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-221298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-featured","9":"category-social-media"},"wps_subtitle":"Ladies and gentlemen, a new meme is born!","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/black-hole-photo-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/black-hole-photo-758x426.jpg",758,426,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/black-hole-photo.jpg",1000,562,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Culture","Featured","Social Media"],"title_text":"The First Ever Photo of a Black Hole is Already Becoming the Latest Viral Meme","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1298,2199,1291&exclude=221298","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221298"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=221298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}