There is some groupthink going on here affecting people like you and others. The above is obviously plain.
Perhaps you should post exactly what image you're talking about and what you think is different.
In the veritasium video the "coffee stain" was not really as blobby as the real image, but it seemed a lot closer than the smooth-gradiant, no blobbiness and no irregularities predictions.
I dont just mean the fuzziness from low resolution.
This isn't really a big deal, but it's also obvious that I am just stating plain facts about what is in these images.
At the time I saw this video when he said "you can be confident, because... (no reason given)" was really the thing that I thought was annoying.
I think you can see the differences in the images. They're not huge but the smooth gradiants vs irregularities/coffee stain/blobbiness is plain to see I think.
Edit: from the horses mouth himself, one of the lead researchers says he didn't expect the image to look like it did: https://youtu.be/ZrDhHDBHkQY
Some of the people here in other parts of this thread have been really offensive for this. It's honestly pretty ridiculous.
All the models are the same, and the real picture is "blobby" only because of the process in how it was taken. I think you are refusing to accept that but there's nothing else to say about it. It wasn't a direct photo, it was a complex assembly of several different radio telescopes around the world stitching data together. If we were actually next to it, it would very much look like the one from interstellar.
The video you linked isn't about the prediction being wrong, more that he just didn't expect to really see a black hole at all. Even though black holes are generally understood for decades, there's a certain shock and awe to seeing it real for the first time.
