Five years ago, the EU-supported Event Horizon Telescope captured the first-ever image of a black hole.
Two years later, we got this clearer image.
Science is how we move forward and progress.
Since 1984, we have achieved these milestones:
🧪 More than €283 billion invested in research;
👨🔬 More than 100 EU-funded projects supported for over €200 million during the pandemic;
🏆 More than 30 Nobel prizes won by EU-funded researchers.
We invest in science. For a better future.
@EU_Commission This is the kind of use of EU money i like to see as a EU citizen.
@EU_Commission Well done!
@EU_Commission
Worth every cent.
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@EU_Commission Approximately 9b EUR per Nobel? So the dozen worldwide centibillionaires could fund 10 each and still be billionaires? Bargain.
@EU_Commission We really need a link to the study that produced the aforementionned image.
@EU_Commission why is the spatial/frequency resolution so high in parts of this image (the bright yellow striations) and so low in other parts of the image (the fuzzy red outer parts)? How much of this image is actual "data"
@EU_Commission We in the UK are happy that the UK has rejoined the Horizon programme. Hurrrah...
@EU_Commission "[A] better future" doesn't emerge from science, it might have come from *acting* on the results of scientific discovery. Considering current climate policy, we're all fucked.
A picture of a black hole does nothing for the sorry state of our insane way of living on this planet. Can starving children eat it? Cure anything? Help something?
A better tomorrow you say? History up until now would seem to prove quite the opposite. More like a fetter tomorrow.
Lab grown meat created with human stem cells.... Science is the best
Oddly, this post catches my attention more after watching 3 Body Problem on Netflix. I found that the show was oddly optimistic and highlighted the importance of giant science projects like this.
