A black hole is a place in space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape – not even light! In 2019, scientists shared the first picture of a black hole in a distant galaxy. To capture it, they didn’t rely on just one telescope. Instead, they linked radio telescopes around the world to act like one giant telescope the size of Earth. Powerful computers then combined the data to form an image of a dark center surrounded by a fuzzy orange ring of hot gas.
A black hole is a place in space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape – not even light! In 2019, scientists shared the first picture of a black hole in a distant galaxy. To capture it, they didn’t rely on just one telescope. Instead, they linked radio telescopes around the world to act like one giant telescope the size of Earth. Powerful computers then combined the data to form an image of a dark center surrounded by a fuzzy orange ring of hot gas.