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Scientists release the first ever image of black hole

"We have taken the first picture of a black hole," said Doeleman. "This is an extraordinary scientific feat accomplished by a team of more than 200 researchers."

by Special Correspondent
April 11, 2019
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Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87. The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun. This long-sought image provides the strongest evidence to date for the existence of supermassive black holes and opens a new window onto the study of black holes, their event horizons, and gravity. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87. The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun. This long-sought image provides the strongest evidence to date for the existence of supermassive black holes and opens a new window onto the study of black holes, their event horizons, and gravity. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

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Doesn’t it look almost like what we all had imagined for years? A red ring of light surrounding deep darkness! Yes, scientists say that is how the mysterious black hole looks like.

Event Horizon Telescope project director Sheperd S Doeleman of the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian during a news conference in Washington, D.C. released the picture of a black hole located in the galaxy called Messier 87 in the constellation Virgo. The black hole, which is 55 million light-years away from Earth, has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun.

“We have taken the first picture of a black hole,” said Doeleman. “This is an extraordinary scientific feat accomplished by a team of more than 200 researchers.”

“The EHT links telescopes around the globe to form an Earth-sized virtual telescope with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. The EHT is the result of years of international collaboration, and offers scientists a new way to study the most extreme objects in the Universe predicted by Einstein’s general relativity during the centennial year of the historic experiment that first confirmed the theory,” the team said in a blog post.

Einstein’s general theory of relativity was published in 1915. According to that, matter, space and time come to a standstill inside a black hole. The shape of the shadow is circular, as Einstein’s theory predicts, reported New York Times.

The team has also published research papersin the Astrophysical Journal Letters to proving the claims.

“Black holes are extraordinary cosmic objects with enormous masses but extremely compact sizes. The presence of these objects affects their environment in extreme ways, warping spacetime and super-heating any surrounding material.”

A Google Doodle was unveiled on Wednesday to celebrate the historic event.

 

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