{"id":18869,"date":"2019-01-05T12:33:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T18:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18869"},"modified":"2019-01-06T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T00:52:07","slug":"evocative-phrase-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/01\/05\/evocative-phrase-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Evocative Phrase Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24032093-300-2019-preview-we-will-see-the-first-ever-picture-of-a-black-hole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From<\/a> Leah Crane in <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (22 December 2018) concerning the new <a href=\"https:\/\/eventhorizontelescope.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Event Horizon Telescope&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(a composite entity, actually) attempts to actually image a black hole:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The EHT collaboration\u2019s images will look not like a sphere of darkness, but rather a banana of light. As the black hole rotates, it actually drags light along with it. This causes a bright crescent to appear on the side rotating towards us, juxtaposed with a dark shadow from the event horizon \u2013 the edge of the black hole itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Dragging light<\/em>. That&#8217;s just a fascinating thought for this ignorant old software engineer. I would have expected the <del>hold<\/del> hole to bend light around it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Leah Crane in NewScientist (22 December 2018) concerning the new Event Horizon Telescope&#8217;s\u00a0(a composite entity, actually) attempts to actually image a black hole: The EHT collaboration\u2019s images will look not like a sphere of darkness, but rather a banana of light. As the black hole rotates, it actually drags \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/01\/05\/evocative-phrase-of-the-day\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18879,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18869\/revisions\/18879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}