What you see right up there is the first image of a real black hole! It was captured in 1974; a big thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope.
So far, there have been plenty of strong evidence for black holes: bursts of radiation, gravitational waves, or dynamic impacts on other bodies that could not be created by any other object known to science. The last nail in the coffin is this direct image of a supermassive black hole.
This mind-boggling black hole is located in the centre of the elliptical galaxy M87, about fifty-five million light-years from Earth. The picture perfectly matches what researchers predicted a black hole to look like based on Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The image is yet another compelling piece of evidence confirming the existence of black holes.
NASA believes that the more telescopes that can participate, and the more widely spread they are, the greater the ultimate image quality. According to Live Science, the finding depicts the dark shadow of the 6.5 billion-solar-mass black hole against the orange brightness of its surrounding accretion disc.
Read Further: Event Horizon Telescope – Wikipedia
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