Scientists Released First Ever Image Of Black Hole!
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Scientists from around the world embarked on a brand new adventure of simultaneously
using their radio dish telescopes to create an earth-size virtual camera.
The collaboration helped us get one step closer to being able to feast our eyes on the first
ever photograph of a black hole.
For a long time people such as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking theorized on the powers
of the black hole and what would happen if we crossed into the other side.
What we knew before this photo is that they were these extreme warps in space-time.
Their gravity is so intense that not even light itself can escape its pull.
Have you ever tried to take a photo in a dark room?
You need a flash on your camera to even get a glimpse of whats in the photo right?
So for scientists after they assembled this earth sized camera they also have to find
that natural flash.
Theyve even been quoted saying that taking the photo would be like trying to take a photo
of a grapefruit on the surface of the moon.
To perform this impossible task they had to photograph the circular opaque silhouette
of a black hole cast on a bright background as reported by space.com.
Now that we have this image it will open up a whole new can of worms in regards to everything
we thought we know about astrophysics, cosmology and just the role of the black hole in our
universe in general.
Each satellite dish could only capture a small portion of whats out there so in a way its
as if the cameras were taking a piece of the final puzzle that would be merged together
to complete this photo.
The black hole was found at the center of the Messier 87 Galaxy which is approximately
53.49 million light-years away from Earth.
Although it looks small, that black hole is actually massive.
The center alone is about 6.5 billion times the mass of our sun.
Its inconceivable just how large that is.
My tiny little monkey brain cant even imagine that.
Sheperd Doeleman who is the director of the Event Horizon Telescope initiative had this
to say - We exposed part of the universe we thought was invisible before.
As with all great discoveries this is just the beginning.
The amazing thing to see with this photo is the fading light surrounding the center of
the black hole.
You can see as the material is being destroyed by the sheer gravity of the M87 black hole.
Everything from the size to the shape of the black hole is exactly what Einsteins theory
on gravity had predicted.
I cant stress how important this photo is, I mean before this we only had computer generated
ideas of what it may look like, but to have the photo itself is incredible.
Theres a reason why weve never been able to get a proper photo until now too.
An astrophysicist at the University of Arizona and one of the lead scientists on the effort
said - Every ray of light, every photon that goes near the black hole, actually blends
towards the black hole and gets completely removed from the universe as we know it.
However in April of 2017 eight radio telescopes in Antarctica, Greenland, South America, North
America, Hawaii, and Europe all pointed their cameras to the black hole in the center of
our galaxy as well as the center of Messier 87 in hopes of catching some of the narrow
light of radiation that comes from the ring of the black hole.
If they could capture this moment they would see the silhouette of the black hole as I
mentioned before.
While the Earth turned they took full advantage of what they call a cosmic opportunity.
The reason for it taking two full years for this photo to be released is due to the massive
data files that each camera took.
The files were far too large to be emailed to one spot, so they literally had to fly
hard drives from all over the globe to process the images and align their findings.
I want to hear your thoughts on this story though so comment down below with what you
think about this new scientific discovery.
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