{"id":307,"date":"2019-04-12T09:45:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T09:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2019-05-12T23:50:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T23:50:39","slug":"first-ever-picture-of-black-hole-messier-87-galaxy-55-million-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/first-ever-picture-of-black-hole-messier-87-galaxy-55-million-light-years-away\/","title":{"rendered":"First ever photo of a Black Hole, in a galaxy 55 million light years away from Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/black-hole.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>The first image of a black hole, from the galaxy Messier 87.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/10\/science\/black-hole-picture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Astronomers announced on Wednesday that at last they had captured an image of the unobservable: a black hole, a cosmic abyss so deep and dense that not even light can escape it.<\/a><br>\n\n\u201cWe have seen what we thought was unseeable,\u201d said Shep Doeleman, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and director of the effort to capture the image, during a Wednesday news conference in Washington, D.C.<br><br>\n\nThe image, of a lopsided ring of light surrounding a dark circle deep in the heart of a galaxy known as Messier 87, some 55 million light-years away from Earth, resembled the Eye of Sauron, a reminder yet again of the implacable power of nature. It is a smoke ring framing a one-way portal to eternity.<br><br>\n\nTo capture the image, astronomers reached across intergalactic space to Messier 87, or M87, a giant galaxy in the constellation Virgo. There, a black hole several billion times more massive than the sun is unleashing a violent jet of energy some 5,000 light-years into space.<br><br>\n\nThe results were announced simultaneously at news conferences in Washington, D.C., and five other places around the world, befitting an international collaboration involving 200 members, nine telescopes and six papers for the Astrophysical Journal Letters. When the image was put up on the screen in Washington, cheers and gasps, followed by applause, broke out in the room and throughout a universe of astrofans following the live-streamed event.<br><br>\n\n(unquote)<br><br>\n\nImage courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/10\/science\/black-hole-picture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, via National Science Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) Astronomers announced on Wednesday that at last they had captured an image of the unobservable: a black hole, a cosmic abyss so deep and dense that not even light can escape it. \u201cWe have seen what we thought was unseeable,\u201d said Shep Doeleman, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/first-ever-picture-of-black-hole-messier-87-galaxy-55-million-light-years-away\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,11,12],"tags":[47,26,27,50,39,64,31,33],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-observer","post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-figures-and-facts","category-life-nature-society","category-science-and-technology","category-us-and-world","tag-astronomy","tag-facts","tag-figures","tag-image","tag-nature","tag-photo","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}