Do You Know that First ever black hole image released? Scientists have unveiled an image of a#supermassive #blackhole, known as #M87, which is at the centre of our neighbouring Virgo A galaxy. This #BlackHole image released by Event Horizon Telescope team in world first time . Until now, every image of a black hole you have ever seen has been an artist's impression The image is the result of a seven year project linking telescopes all over the world to create 'a dish the size of the planet' The fact the image matches so closely to#predictions is a confirmation of #Einstein's theory of general relativity. Before all new information i want You to 1st know about What is a black hole? A black hole is a region of space from which nothing, not even light, can escape.Despite the name, they are not empty but instead consist of a huge amount of matter packed #densely into a small area, giving it an immense #GravitationalPull. There is a region of space beyond the black hole called the event horizon. This is a "point of no return", beyond which it is impossible to escape the gravitational effects of the black hole. Details have been published today in #AstrophysicalJournal Letters. The image shows an intensely bright "ring of fire", as Prof Heino Falcke, of #RadboudUniversity in the#Netherlands, describes it, surrounding a perfectly circular dark hole. The bright halo is caused by#superheated gas falling into the hole. The light is brighter than all the billions of other #stars in the#galaxy combined - which is why it can be seen at such distance from #Earth. The edge of the dark circle at the centre is the point at which the gas enters the #blackhole, which is an object that has such a large #gravitationalpull, not even light can escape. It measures 40 billion km across - three million times the size of the Earth - and has been described by#scientists as "a monster". The black hole is 500 million trillion km away and was #photographed by a network of eight telescopes across the world. "It has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun. And it is one of the heaviest black holes that we think exists. It is an absolute monster, the heavyweight champion of black holes in the Universe." According to Prof Falcke"It is remarkable that the image we #observe is so similar to that which we obtain from our #theoretical calculations. So far, it looks like #Einstein is correct once again." But having the first image will enable #researchersto learn more about these #mysterious objects. They will be keen to look out for ways in which the black hole departs from what's expected in #physics. No-one really knows how the #brightring around the hole is created. Even more intriguing is the question of what happens when an object falls into a black hole.
