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Scientists have Captured Images of Black Hole for the First Time

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Published on: August 16, 2022,

A black hole is a astronomical object which dissolves planets and astronomical objects.It is real but no one has captured images till now. A black hole event horizon telescope which is a planet scale array of eight ground based radio telescopes was designed to capture images of black hole. Today, in coordinated press conference across the globe EHT researchers  reveal that they have captured direct evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow.

 

The image taken was of black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. The hole resides 55 million light years away form Earth and has a mass of 6.5 billion times of the sun. The EHT links a telescope around the globe to form an Earth sized telescope which can study most extreme objects in the universe predicted by Einstein’s general relativity.

 

“We have taken the first picture of a black hole,” said EHT project director Shepard S. Doeleman of the center for Atrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.This was accomplished by a team of more then 200 researchers. Black holes are expected to cast a dark region similar to shadow. It was predicted by Einstein’s general relativity that is never seen before.

 

Creating the EHT telescope was a challenge which required upgrading and connecting a worldwide network of eight pre existing telescopes deployed at a variety if high altitude sites. These locations included volcanoes in Hawaii  and Mexico, mountains in Arizona and the Spanish Sierra Nevada, the Chilean Atacama Desert, and Antarctica.

 

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