It s Finally Here! The First Image Of A Black Hole

All that waiting has paid off. Here it is, the first ever image of a black hole. This incredible photograph is the result of a planet-wide effort by radio astronomers and their telescopes, petabytes of data, and an incomprehensible amount of computing power. The supermassive black hole at the center of the distant galaxy Messier 87, an object as big as the Solar System, which absorbs all the light and matter that falls into it. An object with 6 billion times the mass of the Sun, and you’re looking at a photograph of it. Today’s a good day for astronomy. Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser s Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / frasercain@gmail.com Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - weber.chad@gmail.com References: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298276 https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/first-image-black-hole-captured https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1907/