Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first image made of a black hole, depicting a fiery orange and black ring of gravity-twisted light. With data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers captured a picture of the hot, shadowy edges of a supermassive black hole. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole,” said Sheperd Doeleman of Harvard University. Unlike smaller black holes that come from collapsed stars, supermassive black holes are mysterious in origin. The team looked at two supermassive black holes, the M87 and the one at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.

Source: Washington Post April 10, 2019 17:26 UTC