'We have seen what we thought was unseeable.' Scientists reveal the first image ever made of a supermassive black hole. They are mysterious in origin and are so dense that nothing, not even light, can escape their gravitational pull.
Outside scientists suggested the achievement could be worthy of a Nobel Prize, just like the gravitational wave discovery.
The measurements were taken at a wavelength the human eye cannot see, so the astronomers added color to the image, choosing gold and orange because the light is so hot. Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Ethan Vishniac, who was not part of the discovery team but edits the journal where the research was published, pronounced the image “an amazing technical achievement” that “gives us a glimpse of gravity in its most extreme manifestation.”
Myth says a black hole would rip you apart, but scientists said this one is so big, and thus rotates so slowly, that someone could fall into it and not be torn to pieces. But the person would never be heard from again.
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