“It was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.” How a team of 200 scientists took the first image of a black hole.
In the mid-1990s, Sheperd Doeleman, a doctoral student in astrophysics at MIT, became fixated on a radical idea. He thought it might be possible to take a picture of a black hole.
In a literal sense, the answer was no, it’s not—don’t be ridiculous. Black holes are fields of intense gravity from which no matter, or light, escapes. You can’t snap a Polaroid of nothing. Besides, the only conventional way to see an object across 55 million light years of space is to build a telescope dish the size of Earth. (Good luck writing...
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