BOYS ITS HERE

WE FINALLY GOT SPACE VACUUM IN PHOTO

Woah!!

Was watching that as well! Pretty fucking amazing!

*smiles in infinity*

That is both beautiful and absolutely terrifying

@Root What about sad? I would like to see something thrown into it, but it's so far away... "So many things to throw, so little time..."

cool, what is that glowing thing? and how can you make a photo of nothing?

That's a pretty bad quality. Here, take a better one:

And without the speaker, but with more blackness around (because I used it as my new YouTube banner):

My friend was next to me earlier and said “look at this picture of a black hole.” I thought he said butthole, this was much more interesting lmao

When I saw this for the first time I thought it was just not fully loaded progressive JPEG lol xD

Colonoscopy?

Suspiciously resembles a pixelated version of the eye of sauron

@Jilano I’d love to throw a planet to it and a star but first planet

@jschmold I did colour-pick inside the black area and also considered making it a gradient, but that also wouldn't have completely removed the border, because it's a screenshot of the stream, filmed from the image projected onto their wall. I hope they'll release the original for download soon.

@Fabian protip: radial alpha gradient.

MURPH

@neriald Yes! That must be wonderful to witness (except if it happens to be your star or planet)

@Jilano haha yeah then it would “suck”

Mordor

@careless I can almost hear the main theme instrumental

Vacuum? There is a lot of mass in that photo.

If anyone's interested in the size of M87 compared to our solar system, XKCD just released a nice image (source: https://xkcd.com/2135/)

@Jilano That's massive!!

Present this picture to a client and they might ask for a better resolution with the budget of a cheap plastic binocular.

Space's own vacuum cleaner

@Root That wouldn't help either, the border is irregularly coloured.

But here is the original, it was published by now:

@Fabian So extend your radial gradient's beginning out into the blackness beyond the accretion disk.

@Root So you're saying I should overwrites part of the original image with a different shade of black to improve the transition?

@Fabian Basically?

0% alpha (opaque) in a circle from the center until the outer edge of the accretion disk (the first bit of black past the orange glow). From there, increase the alpha in a gradient until it's completely transparent some distance out.

Now place the resulting image in a black background. All of the dark greys in the image background now fade smoothly into black.

(Though the effect would be better if you brush the transparency/mask yourself in photoshop because of the flared sides.)