The 1st-ever photo of a giant black hole made headlines earlier this month. Now see some beautiful images of M87, the great galaxy that it calls home, located some 55 million light-years from Earth. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/1st-black-hole-photo-see-m87-its-home-galaxy…
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The giant galaxy around the giant black hole
On April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole’s event horizon, the area beyond which light cannot escape the immense gravity of the black hole. That giant black hole, with a mass of 6.5 billion Suns, is located in the elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87). EHT is an international collaboration whose support in…
Four questions: Here there be monsters
On April 10, the world got to see the first image taken of a black hole in space, taken by the Event Horizon Telescope, a worldwide collaboration of astronomers and astrophysicists including a substantial team at the University of Arizona. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-monsters.html…
The Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Film Matter Falling into a Black Hole
The huge team behind the Event Horizon Telescope already made news with their first image of a black hole. But they’ve got bigger ambitions. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65246-first-black-hole-movie.html
We Could Soon Watch a Black Hole in Action, Gobbling Up Matter in Real Time
The huge team behind the Event Horizon Telescope already made news with their first image of a black hole. But they’ve got bigger ambitions. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65246-first-black-hole-movie.html
Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses. Here’s what happened when a woman was.
The sexist backlash against the woman involved with the black hole image, explained. Just after the Event Horizon Telescope project announced last week that its astronomers had managed to capture the first-ever image of a black hole, MIT tweeted this image. Here’s the moment when the first black hole image was processed, from the eyes… Continue reading Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses. Here’s what happened when a woman was.
4 things we’ll learn from the first close-up image of a black hole
Scientists are gearing up to release the first image of the black hole at the center of the galaxy. Here’s what they hope to find out. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/event-horizon-telescope-first-image-black-hole-questions