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Black Hole Image Makes History

Posted on April 10, 2019April 10, 2019 by Agitator!!
Credits: Event Horizon Telescope collaboration et al.

First photo of a black hole has been released.

The stunning new image shows the shadow of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 (M87), an elliptical galaxy some 55 million light-years from Earth. This black hole is 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun. Catching its shadow involved eight ground-based radio telescopes around the globe, operating together as if they were one telescope the size of our entire planet.

For more, check out this NASA story. There is also a cool black hole primer video on USA Today.

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