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Black Hole Photography from Fabian Oefner

March 10th, 2013 | Space

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Fabian Oefner, from Switzerland, created these Black Hole photographs using centrifugal force, which basically means he spins a drill really really fast and photographs paint flying off the edges.

Here’s a quote from the artist about the process:

“Various shades of acrylic paint are dripped onto a metallic rod, which is connected to a drill. When switched on, the paint starts to move away from the rod due to the centrifugal force, creating these amazing looking structures.
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The motion of the paint happens in a blink of an eye, the images you see are taken only millisecond after the drill was turned on. To capture the moment, where the paint forms that distinctive shape, I connected a sensor to the drill, which sends an impulse to the flashes.
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These specialized units are capable of creating flashes as short as a 1/40000 of a second, freezing the motion of the paint.”

It’s a really interesting technique that requires incredible timing.  I especially like the oblique angle shots, amazing expression and color!
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 For more information, visit Fabian’s Behance page.

-RSB

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21 Billion Suns :-o

December 11th, 2011 | Space

Our resident ἄστρον ναύτης, Nicolas, wants to make sure that everyone knows about the biggest hole in the Universe that was discovered recently.  It has a mass of 21 billion suns!!   I can’t really wrap my head around that… Researchers believe that giant black holes exist in the center of all galaxies and the bigger the galaxy, the bigger the black hole.  To calculate the weight of the black holes, researchers measure the speed of bright stars moving by them.  As stars travel faster, more gravity is needed to keep them from flying away.

To learn more about the discovery, go here.  And if you help me understand how massive 21 billion suns might be, I’d appreciate it.

-RSB