JUST IN: We finally know what a black hole looks like. After decades of conjecture and simulations, an international consortium of scientists released the first ever photos of a black hole.
After decades of conjecture and simulations, an international consortium of scientists released the first ever photos of a black hole on Wednesday.
"We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole," Shep Doeleman, Event Horizon Telescope project director, said as he revealed the photos at a press conference on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.The EHT is a global network of radio dishes that effectively turn Earth into a virtual. In addition to the briefing in Washington, there were simultaneous announcements in Brussels, Santiago, Shanghai, Taipei and Tokyo.
Black holes are so massive they warp space and time and allow no light to escape. Even though a black hole itself is not visible directly, the photos confirmed expectations it would be surrounded by dust and gas swirling around it at velocities near the speed of light, which causes the detectable emission of radiation. The event horizon is the boundary of a black hole from which even light cannot escape.
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