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Radio pictures of the darkness,
Gravity of the neutron star..


There’s a wild implosion
Seen from the the ocean
Stretch the laser beam..


From the mountain, there’s no doubt,
The twisting of the web of space and time..



At the centre of the galaxy - gravitation lensing
Supermassive black hole fantasy - 
Seek and ye shall find..



Bouman:
A hundred years ago, Albert Einstein first published his theory of General Relativivity
In the years since then, scientists have provided a lot of evidence in support of it..
But one thing predicted from this theory - black holes!

Kronkite:
‘Seventy-six hours later - the most astonishing pictures of a generation were provided to man’



Bouman:
“However -
Taking a picture of it - extremely difficult! Why is that?
Well, it all comes down to a simple equation..



Due to a phenomenon called diffraction, there are fundamental limits to the smallest object that we can possibly see.
This governing equation says; that in order to see smaller and smaller, we need to make our telescopes bigger and bigger..

And even with the most powerful optical telescopes here on earth, we can’t even get close..
We would need a telescope the size of the entire Earth!


And if we could build this Earth-sized telescope, we could just start to make out
The distinctive ring of light, indicative of a black hole’s event horizon..



And in the famous words of Mick Jagger - ‘You can’t always get what you want.. But if you try sometimes,
You might just find - that you get what you need.”


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Carl Hudson - Rhodes, Synths (OB6, JX-3P, Model D, Korg Delta), Hammond, Vocoder

Nick van Gelder - Drums, Percussion, Clap Stack, Pollard Syndrum CM

Andy Tolman - Bass (Fender Precision)

Drew Wynen - Guitar

João Caetano - Percussion

Katie Bouman - CHIRP M87 Black Hole image reconstruction algorithm lead coder

Walter Kronkite - CBS News


written May - Aug 2018 -
East Finchley, London & Milwaukee, Wisconsin..

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