Black hole event horizon: Here is what it looks like | Technology News, The Indian Express

Black hole event horizon: Here is what it looks like | Technology News, The Indian Express

By Tech Desk |New Delhi |Updated: April 10, 2019 7:54:45 pm

Black hole event horizon: Here is what it looks like

Black Hole Event Horizon: The first photo looks like a "ring of light surrounding a dark circle deep in the heart of the galaxy known as Messier 87, some 55 million light-years away from here, resembled the Eye of Sauron", the New York Times reported.

First ever image of a black hole. Captured by Event Horizon Telescope project. (Image source: National Science Foundation)

Astronomers released the first-ever photographic image of a black hole today. The first photograph, which comes from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, shows the black hole that is at elliptical galaxy Messier 87 or M87. The EHT is a network of 10 radio telescopes on four continents that collectively operate like a single instrument nearly the size of the Earth.