First ever picture of Blackhole to be revealed by this week of April.
What is a black hole?
A black hole is formed with the remnants left behind after a star which is extremely massive in size, approximately 10 times larger than the sun. After exhausting itself of all the fuel falls into the gravitational singularity. White dwarfs and Neutron stars are what the relatively smaller stars end up as. Seeing this will become possible, even in the slightest way through the event horizon telescope.
“Yes, I’m definitely excited to see the image!” Daniel Holz, a professor, and researcher in astrophysics and cosmology of the University of Chicago, told the Times. “It’s not really rational since I know the math works and the theory has been thoroughly tested. But still, this would be a picture of the real thing, up close and personal. That is super cool.”
Paul McNamara, an astrophysicist at the European Space Agency and an expert on black holes, told AFP,and went on to say, “More than 50 years ago, scientists saw that there was something very bright at the center of our galaxy,”
“It has a gravitational pull strong enough to make stars orbit around it very quickly — as fast as 20 years.”
The Solar System takes about 230 million years to circle the center of the Milky Way.
Eventually, astronomers speculated that these bright spots were in fact “black holes” — a term coined by American physicist John Archibald Wheeler in the mid-1960s — surrounded by a swirling band of white-hot gas and plasma.
At the inner edge of these luminous accretion disks, things abruptly go dark.
“The event horizon” — a.k.a. the point-of-no-return — “is not a physical barrier, you couldn´t stand on it,” McNamara explained.
Few objects in the universe hold the same mystique as a black hole. These collapsed stars distort space and time, pulling in anything nearby with unfathomable gravity. Even light cannot escape their pull. That’s why they’re so mysterious — we can’t see black holes, but a project called the Event Horizon Telescope might be on the verge of producing the first-ever photo of one. Researchers have teased a “groundbreaking result” this week.
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