First-ever photo of a black hole revealed
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 7:38 am
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 414154002/It's our first glimpse of one of the weirdest spectacles in the universe. Astronomers on Wednesday released humanity's first-ever image of a black hole.
The picture reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. It looked like a flaming orange, yellow and black ring.
“We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole," said Sheperd Doeleman, Event Project Horizon project director of Harvard University. “This is an extraordinary scientific feat accomplished by a team of more than 200 researchers.”
This black hole resides 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun.