For the first time in the history of humanity, people around the world Wednesday were able to see an image of a black hole 50 million light-years away. In the photo of Bouman, a member of the Event Horizon Telescope project, she braces herself as she loads the groundbreaking image onto her computer. “Watching in disbelief as the first image I ever made of a black hole was in the process of being reconstructed,” she wrote in the caption posted to Facebook. It was one of several imaging algorithms that pieced together data on the black hole collected from radio telescopes around the world. Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87.

Source: Huffington Post April 11, 2019 02:48 UTC