Black Holes and Cosmic Snapshots

deeptrace writes "The New York Times reports that Andrew J. S. Hamilton, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Colorado used video game technology and Einstein's equations for general relativity to calculate what it might look like to fly through a black hole." On a somewhat more tangible note bahstid writes "The Hubble Team has assembled the largest ever image of the Pinwheel Galaxy beyond Ursula Major from 51 Hubble shots and some terrestrial images. The final composition weighs in at 12392x15852 pixels - just over 10 light years per pixel. In an effort to burn out their server properly their European page is making the 450Mb file available for download, along with some slightly more manageable sizes."

Comments

Ursula Major?

[DiamondGeezer]

I knew her at school. Lovely girl.

Re:Ursula Major?

[$RANDOMLUSER]

I dated her little sister for a while, but their father was too much of a bear to deal with.

And in other news ...

[maxwell demon]

... shortly after this story went public, a certain server room in Europe resembled the inside of a black hole ...