The Event Horizon Telescope, connected to eight telescopes across the globe, has revealed the first image of the boundary at the edge of a black hole
We are ‘looking at a region we cannot imagine, the gates of hell, the point of no-return. To me, it’s awe-inspiring’Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87. Picture: EVENT HORIZON TELESCOPE COLLABORATION
The results were presented simultaneously by researchers in Brussels, Santiago de Chile, Taipei, Tokyo and Washington. “This major discovery provides visual evidence for the existence of black holes and pushes the boundaries of modern science,” the European Commission in Brussels said in a statement.
In the picture, we are “looking at a region we cannot imagine, the gates of hell, the point of no-return. To me, it’s awe-inspiring, but it’s also important for physics,” said Heino Falcke, professor of astro-particle physics and radio astronomy at the Radboud University Nijmegen and chair of the EHT Science Council.
The EHT’s pictures shows the black hole at the centre of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. This black hole resides 55-million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5-billion times that of the Sun, the commission said in its statement.
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