{"id":8780,"date":"2019-04-10T20:56:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=8780"},"modified":"2019-04-10T20:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:56:21","slug":"scientists-reveal-first-photo-of-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/04\/10\/scientists-reveal-first-photo-of-black-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reveal first photo of black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using a global network of telescopes to see \u201cthe unseeable,\u201d an international scientific team on Wednesday announced a milestone in astrophysics – the first-ever photo of a black hole – in an achievement that validated a pillar of science put forward by Albert Einstein more than a century ago.
\nBlack holes are monstrous celestial entities exerting gravitational fields so vicious that no matter or light can escape. The photo of the black hole at the center of Messier 87, or M87, a massive galaxy in the relatively nearby Virgo galaxy cluster, shows a glowing ring of red, yellow and white surrounding a dark center.
\nThe research was conducted by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, an international collaboration begun in 2012 to try to directly observe the immediate environment of a black hole using a global network of Earth-based telescopes. The announcement was made in simultaneous news conferences in Washington, Brussels, Santiago, Shanghai, Taipei and Tokyo.
\nThe team\u2019s observations strongly validated the theory of general relativity proposed in 1915 by Einstein, the famed theoretical physicist, to explain the laws of gravity and their relation to other natural forces.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have achieved something presumed to be impossible just a generation ago,\u201d said astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman, director of the Event Horizon Telescope at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian.
\nDoeleman said the research \u201cverifies Einstein\u2019s theory of gravity in this most extreme laboratory.\u201d
\nBlack holes, phenomenally dense celestial entities, are extraordinarily difficult to observe by their very nature despite their great mass. A black hole\u2019s event horizon is the point of no return beyond which anything – stars, planets, gas, dust and all forms of electromagnetic radiation – gets swallowed into oblivion.
\nThe black hole observed by the scientific team resides about 54 million light-years from Earth. A light year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km). This black hole is an almost-unimaginable 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun.
\n\u201cThis is a huge day in astrophysics,\u201d said U.S. National Science Foundation Director France C\u00f3rdova. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing the unseeable.\u201d
\n\u201cIt did bring tears to my eyes,\u201d C\u00f3rdova added.<\/p>\n

Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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