Was The M87 ‘Black Hole Image’ Created By Data Sampling Bias?
Many of you have seen the above image of M87, a massive black hole located in the middle of our own galaxy, and it was made using data from the event horizon telescope. So how do we know that this is exactly what M87 looks like?
Has anyone else tried to reconstruct this using the data that was created by the event horizon telescope team? Are we actually certain that this is what it looks like?
In this video, we’re going to be addressing this from a more scientific perspective. We’re going to discuss two recent papers that question all of this to some extent, with one paper from Japan being exceptionally critical.
That paper suggests that the image of the M87 black hole created three years ago might look this way because of certain scientific biases and the real image could look entirely different.
Reproducing the same result using the same data is extremely important in science. After three years, that is finally happening.
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