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First Image of a Black Hole
On 10 April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration unveiled an image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of galaxy M87, providing the first direct visual evidence of a black hole and its shadow.
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Overview
Archive NoteThe Event Horizon Telescope combined radio observatories around the world into an Earth-sized virtual telescope using very-long-baseline interferometry.
On 10 April 2019, the EHT released the image of M87*, showing a bright ring surrounding the black hole's shadow.
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Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
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