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The first black hole ever imaged now appears to be a little wobbly – POP TIMES UK

In 2019, we got our first good glimpse of the most mysterious cosmic object we know of. For the first time, astronomers imaged a black hole, lurking on the dark side of the universe some 53 million lightyears away at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87).…

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The image of M87*, the first to be captured of a black hole ever, was compiled using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which collected a massive amount of data on M87* through radio antennas around the world. The resulting picture revealed a crescent of hot gas and debris orbiting the black hole’s event horizon, the region of space directly surrounding a black hole from which nothing can escape.“In 2019, we saw the shadow of a black hole for the first time, but we only saw images observed durin…

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