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Just like a black hole, this animation will suck you up.
Credit: Google
The Horizon Event Telescope (EHT) needed two years to create the very first image of a distant black hole, but a new Google Doodle commemorating this historic feat was set up in a matter of hours.
The Google Doodle artist, Nate Swinehart, was sketching scenes for a black hole animation while he was driving to work, at the same time as the EHT representatives were preparing to announce their historic feat, said a representative of Google at Live Science in an email.
It took about two and a half hours to complete the work and the animation was online within six hours of Swinehart submitting the proposal by email, according to Google. [Why Is the First-Ever Black Hole Photo an Orange Ring?]
A bit like in the gravitational pull of a black hole, the letters "Google" are stretched in animation, then swallowed by the inexorable tugging of a black hole placed in the center.
The EHT black hole image combined data collected by approximately 200 researchers using a network of eight ground-based radio telescopes spread around the globe. In the picture – which appears in the middle of the Google Doodle – the shadow of the M87's black hole is framed by a surrounding cloud of dust and overheated gas. A color map applied by scientists dyes the warmer areas in yellow, while the less energetic areas turn red.
Artist Nate Swinehart quickly drew a sequence of animation for the Doodle in his car.
Credit: Google
This is not the first time Swinehart has created a Google Doodle in less than a day to highlight an important astrophysical discovery. In September 2015, he designed a Doodle as a result of a report stating that liquid water was flowing to Mars. In February 2017, his Doodle celebrated NASA's discovery of seven Earth-sized exoplanets commuting around a star about 235 billion kilometers away.
"These achievements are incredible, inspiring and often breathtaking," Swinehart said in a statement.
"As an artist, it's a huge opportunity to take the space of the home page and create something small and charming that arouses the interest of the people for this discovery. "
Originally published on Science live.
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