Black Holes

This week the Event Horizon Telescope was able, for the first time, to show the world an actual image of a black hole. The black hole is located at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 which is 55 million light years from Earth. The supermassive black hole photographed has 6.5 billion times more mass than our Sun.

This was an excellent article on what this historic photograph really means and puts into perspective the difficulty involved in the accomplishment.

This article give you an appreciation of the epic scale of the black hole in relation to our own solar system.

Truly a monumental accomplishment and historic day.

As an aside, it think it would have been much more poetical and cooler if science had settled on the term "dark abyss" instead of "black hole".