Category: WIRED UK

• Seeing the unseeable: humanity’s first image of a black hole

  Yesterday, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration released the first image of a black hole humanity has ever seen. That simple-looking image represents a century of scientific work: from the first theoretical calculations describing black holes; to the earliest hints that every large galaxy contains a supermassive black hole at its heart; to the technological advances…

  Matthew R. Francis

  April 11, 2019

  WIRED UK

  black holes, event horizon, Event Horizon Telescope, galaxies, general relativity, supermassive black holes