R. A.
But...the future refused to change.
- Aug 8, 2022
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In 2019, NASA released the first ever image of a black hole, taken with the Event Horizon Telescope:
Two years later, researchers at Cornell and elsewhere used one of the most powerful electron microscopes to create one of the "smallest" images ever, of "atoms of oxygen, scandium, and praseodymium at a magnification of 10 million"
If you zoom in on the single particles and blow up the image, they look not so unlike the first (minus, of course, the "hole" part:
Of course, there may be something to be said for the fact that these are captured images, where choices must be made when it comes to how things not perceptible by the human eye will be visualized - especially in the case of the TEM photos, which don't even use light as a medium due to their subjects being smaller than light waves. Still, it is a fascinating similarity...
Two years later, researchers at Cornell and elsewhere used one of the most powerful electron microscopes to create one of the "smallest" images ever, of "atoms of oxygen, scandium, and praseodymium at a magnification of 10 million"
If you zoom in on the single particles and blow up the image, they look not so unlike the first (minus, of course, the "hole" part:
Of course, there may be something to be said for the fact that these are captured images, where choices must be made when it comes to how things not perceptible by the human eye will be visualized - especially in the case of the TEM photos, which don't even use light as a medium due to their subjects being smaller than light waves. Still, it is a fascinating similarity...
