@Ping_chan  
If you are orbiting the event horizon outside of the area that’s glowing red with burning material, then most likely the planet’s sky would be lit up bright from all of that hot material.  
I’ve read some discussion once that if a planet with life on it could successfully pass the event horizon in one piece then time would slow down to a crawl and the people on that planet may never know that they are inside of a black hole with no way out.
 
That last bit is both awesome and rather creepy.

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@Ping_chan  
Yep m87 has become popular, the main Google search page has it there.

@Shimmering Spectacle  
I’m definitely keeping an eye on my Google feed.  
I used to get all of my astronomy news from science daily, but that website seemed to loose its steam with astronomy themed stories, I remember using all sorts of tags and stuff to look up astronomy stuff, but now the website seems different.

@Ping_chan  
We’ll probably get one for Andromeda properly next year, maybe less if everything goes as they scheduled.

@GenericArchangel  
Heh yep, I once saw a discussion online about something to do with our milky-way, but the blog used a generic picture of a spiral galaxy that wasn’t even named, but it showed the complete picture of the galaxy from the outside, and someone in the comments section was absolutely convinced that it was a picture taken by satellites from outside of our galaxy…

@GenericArchangel  
Heh thanks for the recap on the behind the scenes, I haven’t actually taken the time myself to read how they did it. I’m just happy my self that I found the 150MB 8k resolution size version, so I can sit there on my 4k TV and oggle at the abyss before me…  
I’m pretty strange.

@Ping_chan  
Radio telescopes can do amazing things. And we actually have pics of Sagittarius A*, but since it is a side-on view we can’t get this kind of shot. That’s why this particular black hole was chosen, there was reason to believe we’d get a usable picture out of it.

@Shimmering Spectacle  
But so Yah, I didn’t dig around too much around the Event Horizon Telescope sites, mostly because this release of the photo of the swirly burning stuff orbiting the black hole was pretty much what I’ve already known about black holes in general…  
But I’ll try to see if they are working on any other black holes.  
But wouldn’t this type of photo only work for black holes that are seen sideways from our perspective?  
I’m sure that Sagittarius A would only be visible as a accretion disk from where sit in the milky-way…  
Now I’m curious about the Andromeda galaxy.

@GenericArchangel  
The main reason why it took them two years, was because of Antarctica’s weather at the time.

@Ping_chan  
Five super-powerful telescopes, containing hundreds if not thousands of antennas between them, all scanning the same bit of sky for a few weeks? They had petabytes of data. Several petabytes. They had to carefully stitch together all the “pictures” (these were done with radio telescopes), then redo it to make sure they got it right, then analyze the pictures for months to figure out what they had a picture of. Yes, it took that long.

@Ping_chan  
I’m well aware of it.

@Ardashir  
If you are orbiting the event horizon outside of the area that’s glowing red with burning material, then most likely the planet’s sky would be lit up bright from all of that hot material.  
I’ve read some discussion once that if a planet with life on it could successfully pass the event horizon in one piece then time would slow down to a crawl and the people on that planet may never know that they are inside of a black hole with no way out.
 
@Shimmering Spectacle  
If I read the news correctly those “pictures” of m87 were taken in April of 2017… It took them two years to process the images? Still its a very complicated array of telescopes they have set up to actually do this.  
And keeping in mind just how far away that galaxy is and how small of a dot the actual area is occupying in the night sky…  
But still 2 years? Maybe I just have really high expectations of technology…

@Ping_chan  
I don’t know if looked at Andromeda yet, yet if they did it’ll probably be a while before we get to see it.

In case someone wants to see a picture of the area the black hole is affecting, here’s a link. Just to be clear, that little black dot is 6.5 million times the size of our sun
 
Imagine being on a world orbiting one of the stars the black hole is dragging in. What would those people be seeing as doom came to devour them?

@Shimmering Spectacle  
This definitely requires some thought! We have m87, and we need Sagittarius A and whatever the black hole at the center of the Andromeda galaxy is named…

@Ping_chan  
The only difference is how bright it is, and m87 and brighter then Sagittarius A (or sgrA*, which would be just the name for that oc pony).

@Ping_chan  
All of the black holes are different-looking and unique ponies.  
Unfortunately, since their gravity pulls in all light, you’ll never get to see it.

So Sagittarius A is the name of our own Milky Way super massive black hole huh?  
I wonder if someone were to ponify Sagittarius A, would it look any different than this one?

That was quick.

Nyx?

@GenericArchangel  
No prob.  
Is still a cute cosmic pon, and a celebration of a historic milestone in the history of astronomy.  
And of course proof that this fandom works fast.

@TheFinite  
And so there are. My bad.

awh

@GenericArchangel  
I think it is an alicorn. On its head you can see the horn, and if you look closely and the back you can see two small protrusions that are the tips of its wings. It’s just hard to see because, well, black hole.