We have been always been fascinated how Black Holes look like since we don't have any photographic proof of the celestial phenomenon. We usually have an artist representation of simply a spinning black object with some light at its ends. But capturing something that can also absorb light is never easy because it is very far and needs to have a collaborative efforts of many institutions and astronomers.
Recently the Event Horizons Telescope has released an image of an actual black hole which is in the middle of the galaxy M87 located in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. To make this image, it took more than 200 researchers and 8 light ground-based radio telescopes from different parts of the world to capture a well coordinated picture of it. It may seem like a star with a huge sunspot, but it is made up of thousands of stars form that galaxy with a huge dark void in the middle.
 |
| Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87. The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun. This long-sought image provides the strongest evidence to date for the existence of supermassive black holes and opens a new window onto the study of black holes, their event horizons, and gravity. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration |
.jpg)