We had to get lucky in a lot of different ways. And sometimes, it&#39s better to be lucky than good.在很多方面我们都需要幸运的眷顾。有时，运气比正确操作更重要。In this case, we were both, I like to think. But light had to come from the black hole.我认为这一次，我们不但操作正确，运气也很好。但我们需要接收来自黑洞的光线。It had to come through intergalactic space, th

You&#39ll see here that some light from behind it gets lensed, and some light does a loop-the-loop around the entire orbit of the black hole.你现在看到的是在黑洞后面的一些光透过它，有些光的确会一直绕着黑洞转。But when you get enough light from all this hot gas swirling around the black hole,但如果光足够多，它们来自黑洞周围的高温气体中，then you wind up se

This is a very powerful black hole. Not by universal standards, it&#39s still powerful,这是一个强有力的黑洞。虽然不是公认的，但它依然非常强大，and from the north and south poles of this black hole we think that jets are coming.在这个黑洞的北极和南极，我们认为射线正从这两段过来。Now, we&#39re too close to really see all the jet structure, but it&#39s th

You can&#39t beat the bandwidth of a 747 filled with hard discs.没有哪个网络比一架满载硬盘的波音747飞机更快的了。And so, I guess a few weeks or a few months ago, on a computer screen somewhere, this started to come into view. This moment.那么我猜，在几周或几个月前，在某地一台电脑的显示器上，黑洞的形象在那一刻渐渐成形。Well, it took a long time. I mean, look at t

It&#39s the red circle, that&#39s terrifying. No, really. Black holes really are the central mystery of our age,这个红色的圈太吓人了。你在开玩笑。黑洞可谓是我们这个时代的中心之谜，because that&#39s where the quantum world and the gravitational world come together. What&#39s inside is a singularity.因为它是量子世界与引力世界的交合点。黑洞的中心是一个奇点。And th

Shep, thank you so much for coming. I think your plane landed literally two hours ago in Vancouver.克里斯·谢普，感谢你的到来。我听说你乘坐的航班两个小时前刚到达温哥华。Such a treat to have you. So, talk us through how do you get from Einstein&#39s equation to a black hole?非常高兴今天你能来这里。那么，给我们讲讲你是如何从爱因斯坦方程式中提取黑洞信息的？Over 100 years ago,

A few years ago, you embarked on this mission to try and actually image one of these things.几年前，你接受这项任务来尝试并且、构想出这些东西的样子。And I guess you took -- you focused on this galaxy way out there. Tell us about this galaxy.我猜——你一直在研究宇宙中的这个星系。给我们介绍一下这个星系吧。This is the galaxy -- we&#39re going to zoom into the ga

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