Black Hole Picture Captured for First Time

April 10th, 2019

Via: Guardian:

Astronomers have captured the first image of a black hole, heralding a revolution in our understanding of the universe’s most enigmatic objects.

The picture shows a halo of dust and gas, tracing the outline of a colossal black hole, at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy, 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 break down.

The breakthrough image was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of eight radio telescopes spanning locations from Antarctica to Spain and Chile, in an effort involving more than 200 scientists.

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One Response to “Black Hole Picture Captured for First Time”

  1. NH says:
    April 21, 2019 at 9:21 pm

    Electrodynamics, Plasmoids, Plasma Cosmology, and the Electric Sun hypothesis—Physicist Wal Thornhill is interviewed in this two part video to give his take on what this latest image shows.
    James Clerk Maxwell ought to have Einstein’s pedestal.

    Part 1:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4NffTr_GMk

    Part 2:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk2-lH9ewuA&feature=youtu.be

    Wal Thornhill’s site—His archives starting about 15 years ago are really good:

    http://www.holoscience.com/wp/sample-page/

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