>>16854831Trust the science bro
>>16854831The Center Is The Whole.
Image only appears at the focal point.
>>16854831Those parts of the mirror see the all image.It just takes away some luminosity.
>>16854831a hole is nothing and therefore cannot exist. nature abhors the vacuum and all the light rushes in to fill it up.
>>16855014not the question; why cant you see the hole and the reflection of your eye/camera?
>>16854831same reason a full image still forms even if you cover part of a lens - there's still some light from other regions converging into an image
>>16854831Humans have holes in their retinas, they just line up the image so it matches then they can't see it.
>>16854831the parallel lines entering the telescope represent light from the same point source, just so far away that they're basically parallel.a different point in the sky would have light that enters the telescope from a different angle.the image is formed from the focusing of light to points in the area of the focal point.
Real answer:You know that meme video with all the normies shocked to find their bathroom mirror can "see" an egg despite there being a piece of paper obstructing it?The same thing is happening in the telescope.Objects that you might assume to be obstructed by the secondary mirror are still visible on the primary mirror depending on the angle of incidence. The two mirrors are curved and placed in such a way that the image of the hole (and your own eyeball for that matter) is refracted to nothingness while the image of the light sources behind the primary mirror appear flat and magnified.
>>16855536>light sources behind the primary mirror appear flat and magnified.Behind the *secondary* mirror. My bad.
>>16854831Trust the plan.
>>16854831All parts of the image go through all paths to the focal point, to a very good approximation. You could remove all but a small piece of the mirror and it would still make roughly the same image, but much dimmer.
>>16854831>Why the resulting image doesnt have a hole in the center?It does, it's just out of focus
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