You’re looking at an image of the first black hole ever photographed.
This supermassive black hole resides at the heart of galaxy M87, about 55 million light-years from Earth.
In April 2019, it made history when the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first-ever direct image of a black hole.
Over the past two decades, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed M87 multiple times, deepening our understanding of this cosmic giant - an object with a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun.
#Science #NASA #blackhole
You’re looking at an image of the first black hole ever photographed.
This supermassive black hole resides at the heart of galaxy M87, about 55 million light-years from Earth.
In April 2019, it made history when the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first-ever direct image of a black hole.
Over the past two decades, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed M87 multiple times, deepening our understanding of this cosmic giant - an object with a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun.
#Science #NASA #blackhole
