You can't beat the bandwidth of a 747 filled with hard discs.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.Well, it took a long time. I mean, look at this. That was it. That was the first image.So tell us what we're really looking at there. I still love it.So what you're seeing is that last orbit of photons. You're seeing Einstein's geometry laid bare.The puncture in space-time is so deep that light moves around in orbit, so that light behind the black hole,as I think we'll see soon, moves around and comes to us on these parallel lines at exactly that orbit.It turns out, that orbit is the square root of 27 times just a handful of fundamental constants. It's extraordinary when you think about it.When ... In my head, initially, when I thought of black holes, I'm thinking that is the event horizon,there's lots of matter and light whirling around in that shape. But it's actually more complicated than that.Well, talk us through this animation, because it's light being lensed around it.
