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    Scientists unveil first black hole image

    May 29, 2019 4 minutes
    CAMILLE M. CARLISLE

    SCIENTISTS HAVE AT LAST ‘seen’ a black hole — and it’s beautiful. Announcing the result at a National Science Foundation press conference in Washington, D.C., representatives of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration unveiled a reconstructed image of the gargantuan black hole in the giant elliptical galaxy M87. The galaxy lies about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The black hole itself is so large that light would take 1½ days to cross it.

    “We have seen what we thought was unseeable,” said project director Sheperd Doeleman (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian) during the press conference. “We have seen and

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