'I was in total disbelief.'
Scientists have revealed the first ever image of a black hole. The picture is the result of a global collaboration in which scientists linked together telescopes virtually to create one, huge, Earth-sized telescope.
Ahead of the documentary, Newsweek interviewed EHT scientist Katie Bouman about what obtaining an image of a black hole actually means. Bouman is the computer scientist who developed one of the algorithms used to decode the data.A black hole is a singularity, where matter has collapsed into an infinitely small point in space. Gravity is so strong around a black hole that, once too close, nothing can escape its pull, not even light.
“With this mission, an informally constituted team developed the machinery necessary to make these observations. After some failures, the first event horizon scale observation was achieved with a detection, peeking above the noise, on a [roughly] 4,500 kilometer baseline between Maunakea, Hawaii and Mount Graham, Arizona in 2007. That success retired risk, and set the focus on a larger imaging array.
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