Michelle Thaller

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The Joe Rogan Experience · #2506 - Michelle Thaller · 28 May 2026 podcast

I mean, we're solving problems.

We're saying, can you take a picture of the black part of a black hole?

Can you actually see the light area, the event horizon getting sucked in?

I'm talking about the Event Horizon Telescope, not a NASA mission.

But there were times in my life, like when I first saw that picture come together, and I didn't think they'd be able to do that.

I don't think people really understand what happened there.

They were doing something right on the fuzzy edge of physics being possible.

You need to catch the same front of a wavelength of light.

So light's coming by.

It's a wave.

It travels at the speed of light.

The wavelength of light is tiny.

Let's say for a minute they were dealing with microwaves, let's say like a millionth of a meter.

So something that's a meter divided by a million is traveling past you at the speed of light.

And the Earth is round and the Earth is moving.

And they had these eight observatories all around the planet.

And they had to catch that same wavefront, the same one.

If it was one wavefront later, one millionth of a meter later traveling at the speed of light, they wouldn't have gotten the image.

They needed to catch the same wavelength, the same...

Same photon, the same wave of light had to be caught in all of those telescopes at once.

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