Huge Fiery Ringpiece in the Sky

Huge Fiery Ringpiece in the Sky
Huge Fiery Ringpiece in the Sky

parkaner > 10/04/2019, 15:08

Astronomers have captured the first image of a black hole, heralding a revolution in our understanding of the universe’s most enigmatic objects.

The picture shows a halo of dust and gas, tracing the outline of a colossal black hole, at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy, 55m light years from Earth.

The black hole itself – a cosmic trapdoor from which neither light nor matter can escape – is unseeable. But the latest observations take astronomers right to its threshold for the first time, illuminating the event horizon beyond which all known physical laws break down.

33 million times the size of our Sun, and 6 billion times as massive.
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