First ever black hole image released

Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris

We’ve seen artist impressions of them for years in astronomy science books, they’ve been the stuff of science fiction films and novels but now we have our first ever image of a black hole! It looks both beautiful and scary…and very much like the predictions of Einstein.

Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy.

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