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Questioning the Event Horizon Telescope’s “First Image" of a Black Hole

Author:

Tickner, Clive

Category:

Essays

Sub-Category:

Astrophysics

Language:

English

Date Published:

March 5, 2026

File:

/Essays-Astrophysics/Download/10480

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Keywords:

Algorithms, network of radio telescopes, 4.5 petabytes of data, black hole's appearance, pre-existing models, hypothetical image, Sheperd Doeleman, Hotaka Shiokawa, a reasonable image, mathematical manipulations

Abstract:

In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration made headlines with the announcement that they had captured the “first image of a black hole”, specifically the one at the centre of the galaxy M87. This assertion was accompanied by the widespread promotion of an image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy, as a dense, swirling, orange ring with a dark centre. Whilst this feat has been celebrated as groundbreaking, a closer examination reveals that the image in question was not a photograph in the conventional sense, but a carefully constructed illustration based on sparse and imperfect data, heavily influenced by pre-existing theoretical models. Was this announcement promoted to enhance the scientific community’s reputation, or just as a novelty for a naïve and easily impressed public?

Comments

Gerd Termathe(Friedberg (Bavaria), Germany):

A couple of years ago I have made an animation (https://www.geogebra.org/m/yatuhabe) to visualize what an observer ("Beobachter") sees when he watches a source of light rotating on a circular path.
As a result the intensity distribution looks very similar to the picture presented as EHT discovery.
In the animation the light source, rotating on the blue circle, sends out flashes in regular intervals which appear for the observer to be on the larger red circle. Each individual flash is shown in plain geometry as a circle with a marked center.
To run the animation set the slider for the variable t (time) to zero and click on the play button next to it. Superposition occurs when more than one flash (from different locations) arrive simultaneously at the observer, i.e. when the flash centers cross the read circle.
For more detailed information don't hesitate to ask me.

Best regards
Gerd.

Posted: March 09, 2026 @ 11:36:57 am

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Steve Olah(Laguna Woods, United States):

Very interesting paper. We are discovering that the establishment scientist and their organizations lie. The lying started much before Newton. While Newton made a remarkable re-engineering to fit an equation on collected data, his gravity equation is a fake field equation, resulting in correct numbers.
There is no attraction between two masses. It is more interesting.
As you write in your paper, the black hole pictures are fake, because there are no black holes. And there are no event horizons. If a star grows big enough, the ether velocity into that body is high enough to suppress the photons' velocity trying to escape. Simple physics.

Posted: March 05, 2026 @ 8:53:19 pm

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