1st Picture Of A Black Hole ~ Historic Moment

"This is a historic moment
– you're looking at the first ever photograph of a black hole."

First ever black hole image

released

By Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News

• 10 April 2019

Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole,
which is located in a distant galaxy.

It measures 40 billion km across
- three million times the size of the Earth
and has been described by scientists as "a monster".

The black hole is 500 million trillion km away
and was photographed by a network of eight telescopes across the world.

Details have been published today in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Prof Heino Falcke, of Radboud University in the Netherlands,
who proposed the experiment, told BBC News that the black hole
was found in a galaxy called M87.

"What we see is larger than the size of our entire Solar System," he said.

"It has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun.

And it is one of the heaviest black holes that we think exists.

It is an absolute monster, the heavyweight champion
of black holes in the Universe."


The image shows a intensely bright "ring of fire", as Prof Falcke describes it, surrounding a perfectly circular dark hole.

The bright halo is caused by superheated gas falling into the hole.

The light is brighter than all the billions of other stars
in the galaxy combined

- which is why it can be seen at such distance from Earth.

The edge of the dark circle at the centre is the point
at which the gas enters the black hole,
which is an object that has such a large gravitational pull,
not even light can escape.

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The image shows an intensely bright "ring of fire",
as Prof Falcke describes it, surrounding a perfectly circular dark hole.

The bright halo is caused by superheated gas falling into the hole.

The light is brighter than all the billions of other stars
in the galaxy combined - which is why it can be seen
at such distance from Earth.

The edge of the dark circle at the centre is the point
at which the gas enters the black hole,
which is an object that has such a large gravitational pull,
not even light can escape.


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"In 1850, John Adams Whipple took the first-ever photograph of a star
– Vega, 25 lightyears away.

Today, scientists reveal the first-ever photograph of a black hole
– M87, 55 *million* light years away.

Astonishing that a mere 400 years after we pointed our first crude telescopes
at the sky, we are peering into the gun barrel of time itself

— a cosmic object which even Einstein thought
was a thrilling but purely theoretical possibility,
proven today to be as real as gravity.

An historic moment dwarfing every political
and personal drama that swarms us.

Here's to the telescopic perspective."

 

3 FEMALE to THE MOON

 

DR. KATIE BOUMAN
TED TALK

How to take a picture of a black hole


https://www.ted.com/talks/katie_bou...pEpYE9v5lH8pa0tft6BDxuSFisQobdfUQZVM#t-759204