The Event Horizon Telescope— a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration—was designed to capture images of a black hole. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. The shadow of a black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. The image shows the light aroung black hole’s boundary, the event horizon. Image courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope.

‘It’s an Absolute Monster’: See How Astronomers Managed to Snap the First-Ever Photograph of a Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope project has done the unthinkable.

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