Simulated view of a black hole in front of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Note the gravitational lensing effect, which produces two enlarged but highly distorted views of the Cloud. Across the top, the Milky Way disk appears distorted into an arc. Astronomers have found and taken a photo of a black hole and yet there’s […]
![Astronomers reveal world-first picture of a black hole The supermassive black hole at the core of supergiant elliptical galaxy Messier 87, with a mass ~7 billion times the Sun's, as depicted in the first image released by the Event Horizon Telescope (10 April 2019). Visible are the crescent-shaped emission ring and central shadow, which are gravitationally magnified views of the black hole's photon ring and the photon capture zone of its event horizon. The crescent shape arises from the black hole's rotation; the shadow is about 2.6 times the diameter of the event horizon.](https://i0.wp.com/www.siliconpalms.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1200px-Black_hole_-_Messier_87-777x333.jpg)
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