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WATCH: A Black Hole Is Photographed For First Time By Massive Telescope Project
The world is seeing the first-ever image of a black hole Wednesday, as an international team of researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope project released their look at the massive black hole at the center of galaxy Messier 87 (M87).
The image shows a dark disc “outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon,” the consortium said.
The enormous black hole is some 55 million light-years from Earth in the Virgo galaxy cluster, with a mass some 6.5 billion times that of our sun.
Video National Science Foundation via YouTube
A black woman will lead the third largest city in America, elected by voters who said they wanted change and the symbolism of a new era of politics in segregated Chicago.
Lori Lightfoot has never held office but won all 50 of the city’s wards in a crushing landslide on Tuesday.
Lightfoot’s win breaks race and gender barriers, and she’s openly gay with a wife and daughter. On the campaign trail, she leaned into her blue-collar roots growing up in a deeply segregated Ohio steel town. In her acceptance speech, Lightfoot invoked the legendary Harold Washington, the city’s first black mayor and others.
“I stand on the shoulders of so many. The shoulders of strong, black women, like Ida B. Wells, Gwendolyn Brooks and Annie Ruth Lowery. The shoulders of LGBTQ+ trailblazers, like Dr. Ron Sable, Vernita Gray and Art Johnston,” Lightfoot said.
She’s the former president of the Chicago police board, and also a former corporate attorney and federal prosecutor. Her message of “bring in the light” resonated with voters who raged against the local Democratic Party machine, notorious in Chicago for dynastic politics, patronage hiring and corruption.
“People felt like this is a moment where we can try something new. We can possibly go in a different direction, and we can represent to the world that we need something fresh,” said Cathy J. Cohen, a political scientist at the University of Chicago.
Lightfoot’s election is the latest in a record number of black women elected mayor in the nation’s 100 largest cities. Lightfoot will become the eighth such woman to lead one of those cities, Chicago being the largest, when she takes office in May.
The movement has been swift. Just five years ago, there was only one black woman leading any of the nation’s top 100 cities.
A Record Number Of Black Women Are Becoming Mayor Of Major Cities
Photo: Manuel Martinez/WBEZ Data source: Center for American Women and Politics Chart: Thomas Wilburn/NPR
Linking to the segment of This American Life about the husband-and-wife comedy team who got their big break on Ed Sullivan ... the same night as the Beatles' American debut ... and had to go on right before the Beatles' encore performance.
Hey, it's the anniversary of their debut, too!
The video features images of our Sun from the past three years, "at a pace of two images per day." Captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
FYI: it is epic when you watch it on fullscreen with your earphone.
Stunning Video: 3 Years Of The Sun In 3 Minutes : The Two-Way
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Loading bar.... did u know that these like. little spinning icons and other animated thingymabobs that play while loading something are called throbbers. I think that's pretty cool . This is a throbber technically. Might use it as one in my next game project perhaps
Made like a dark, fucked up version of Yogurt haha. Just a glimpse into my dark reality. A full stare into my twisted perspective would make most simply go insane lmao
Edgy Phase, continued Not quite finished yet (still need to give them a mouth and eyes and an animation rig) but by gosh I'm saving this as a pfp
All the yogurts This is in anticipation of maybe redesigning this fella a little bit so they have a more expressive face and stuff
hello!!
how do you do this really cool cel shading look on your renders? i’m assuming you use blender…
Hey there! You're right that I use Blender for the majority of my 3D art, this one in particular involves a very simple node setup that I put together earlier this year for shiny stuff like metal or gems.
You can change the colors of the surface and reflections through the ColorRamp node
And alter the angle of the reflections by rotating your light sources
Super simple, but I use it for a lot of scenes nowadays
