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  • The First Picture Ever Taken Of A Black Hole

    11 Apr 2019 by Jacqui in Science, Space, Tech/Sci
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    The pic above is an artist’s rendering, which until recently, was the only way we could see an image of a black hole.

    If for some reason you didn’t believe that black holes really exist then you will now.

    For the first time in history, through the work of more than 200 scientists, an image has been captured of a black hole.

    This out-of-this-world image was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of eight radio telescopes spanning locations from Antarctica to Spain and Chile.

    Sheperd Doeleman, EHT director and Harvard University senior research fellow had the following to say:

    “black holes are the most mysterious objects in the universe. We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have taken a picture of a black hole.”

    Here it is in all its glory:

    Beautiful.

    The Guardian reports that the halo that can be seen in the image is made up of dust and gas tracing the outline of a colossal black hole, at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy.

    The black hole is approximately 55m light years from Earth.

    The black hole itself – a cosmic trapdoor from which neither light nor matter can escape – is unseeable. But the latest observations take astronomers right to its threshold for the first time, illuminating the event horizon beyond which all known physical laws collapse.

    …Sheperd Doeleman, EHT director and Harvard University senior research fellow said: “Black holes are the most mysterious objects in the universe. We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have taken a picture of a black hole.”

    Einstein was the first to predict that there might be black holes in space with his theory of relativity.

    Now, before you go and get your telescope out, these crazy little holes are not visible with just any telescope. In fact, you need a telescope that is so powerful it would be able to spot a slice of pizza on the moon.

    You can read more about the science behind the black hole here.

    Happy black hole gazing.

    [source:guardian]

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