A language professor has given a Hawaiian name — Powehi — to the black hole depicted in an image produced in a landmark experiment. #HumansOfUHHilo pic.twitter.com/fCZ2dzKVQk —@UHawaiiNewsThe world's first image of a black hole revealed Wednesday was created using data from eight radio telescopes around the world. Powehi means "the adorned fathomless dark creation" or "embellished dark source of unending creation" and comes from the Kumulipo, an 18th century Hawaiian creation chant. Dempsey was among 200 scientists who worked to capture an image of the massive black hole in the M87 galaxy nearly 54 million light-years from Earth. "We described what we had seen and that this black hole was illuminating and brightening the darkness around it, and that's when he came up with the name," she said.

Source: CBC News April 12, 2019 13:18 UTC