First ever photo of a Black Hole!
Just announced and shown on the TV...... the first ever photo of a Black Hole!
It's a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* and is 26,000 light years from Earth.
It's about 6 million times the mass of the sun.
Exciting stuff!
Quote from NDTV:
"The black hole, Sagittarius A*, is right at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. The photo has been taken using the Event Horizon Telescope which consists of a number of telescopes spread across the planet.
Black holes are immensely dense objects which don't let anything escape from its gravity, not even light.
This is the first time we'll be seeing a photo of a black hole. So far, everything you've seen has merely been an illustration based on some scientific study.
The Event Horizon Telescope uses a bunch of radio telescopes of different capacities, spread around Earth, that are linked together to combine signals. These create a VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometer)."