First Photo Of A Black Hole Released – This Giant Monster Is Larger Than Our Entire Solar System!

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – It’s a historical day! All of us interested in science and astronomy have waited and here it is – the first photo of a black hole has finally been released, and yes, you guessed it – it’s black, almost.

The black hole image captured by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

As most already know, a black hole is a region of space from which nothing, not even light, can escape. A black hole is a result of the extreme curvature of space by a massive compact body. However, black holes can never be observed directly and their existence can only be inferred from the gravitational effects and the radiation emitted by material falling into them.

Supermassive black holes are the most destructive force in the Universe, with a compact energy source of enormous strength and a mass of an order of magnitude between 105 and 1010 (hundreds of thousands and tens of billions) of solar masses!

The black hole is located at the heart of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy, nearly 54 million light years from Earth.

It’s a big first step that can hopefully provide us with profound knowledge about some of the greatest secrets of the Universe.

“We are delighted to report to you that we have seen what was thought to be unseeable,” said Shep Doeleman, Harvard University senior research fellow and director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), at the announcement at Washington’s National Press Club.

“We now have visual evidence. We know that a black hole sits at the center of the M87 galaxy.”

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The photographed black hole is a monster. It measures 40 billion km across, which is three million times the size of the Earth and has been described by scientists as “a monster”.

Monster black holes that are 10 times the size of our solar system could easily swallow billions of Suns.

To snap a shot of the black hole, scientists used a network of eight telescopes across the world.

“What we see is larger than the size of our entire Solar System,” Professor Heino Falcke, of Radboud University in the Netherlands told BBC.

“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.

Messier 87 with its halo clearly visible among other members of the Virgo Cluster. Credit: Chris Mihos (Case Western Reserve University)/ESO, CC BY 4.0

Although they are relatively simple objects, black holes raise some of the most complex questions about the nature of space and time, and ultimately of our existence,” he said.

Having the first image of a black hole will give scientists a good opportunity to learn more about these mysterious objects. We still don’t know how the bright ring around the hole is created. Another unsolved question we cannot answer is what happens when an object falls into a black hole.

According to the puzzling black hole information paradox, you are dead and alive at the same time when you fall into a black hole.

Written by Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com Staff Writer