PARIS: Astronomers on Wednesday unveiled the first photo of a black hole, one of the star-devouring monsters scattered throughout the Universe and obs...
The first ever photo a black hole, taken using a global network of telescopes, conducted by the Event Horizon Telescope project, to gain insight into celestial objects with gravitational fields so strong no mater or light can escape, is shown in this handout photo released April 10, 2019. — Reuters: Astronomers on Wednesday unveiled the first photo of a black hole, one of the star-devouring monsters scattered throughout the Universe and obscured by impenetrable shields of gravity.
“It’s a distance that we could have barely imagined,“ Frederic Gueth, an astronomer at France’s National Centre for Scientific Research and co-author of studies detailing the findings, told AFP. Knit together “like fragments of a giant mirror,“ in Bremer’s words, they formed a virtual observatory some 12,000km across — roughly the diameter of Earth.
“I never thought that I would see a real one in my lifetime,“ said CNRS astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet, author in 1979 of the first digital simulation of a black hole. “For everything to work, we needed to have clear visibility at every [telescope] location worldwide”, said IRAM scientist Pablo Torne, recalling collective tension, fatigue and, finally, relief.Torne was at the controls of the Pico Veleta telescope in Spain’s Sierra Madre mountains.
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