For the first time ever, space researchers have been able to capture an image showing a black hole.
An image from space that even some of the world’s top astrophysicists never expected to see is now available for every human to examine.
Stitched together based on data compiled from eight telescopes located around the world, the picture shows a supermassive black hole, which scientists say has a mass about six billion times that of our sun, in a section of the M87 galaxy approximately 53 million light years away from Earth. Supermassive black holes such as the one in the photograph are considered a scientific mystery. Unlike smaller black holes, which come from dying stars, supermassive black holes’ origins have never been determined.
“We have seen what we thought was unseeable,” Sheperd Doeleman from Harvard University’s Black Hole Initiative said in Washington.
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