This 10 April 2019 video says about itself:
First-Ever Black Hole Image Released
The Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
From USA Today today:
It’s our first glimpse of one of the weirdest spectacles in the universe. Astronomers on Wednesday released humanity’s first-ever image of a black hole.
The picture reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. It looked like a flaming orange, yellow and black ring.
“We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole,” said Sheperd Doeleman, Event Project Horizon project director of Harvard University. “This is an extraordinary scientific feat accomplished by a team of more than 200 researchers.”
This black hole resides 55 million light-years from Earth and has…
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