For the first time ever, scientists will reveal images of a black hole.
American scientists are expected to unveil the first ever photograph of a black hole on Wednesday, 10 April.
The images, which are expected to be released on 10 April, will give the general public an incredible insight into something that a lot of us know very little about.
The US National Science Foundation has scheduled a news conference in Washington to announce a “groundbreaking result from the Event Horizon Telescope project”.
According to The US National Science Foundation, black holes are extremely dense pockets of matter, objects of such incredible mass and miniscule volume that they drastically warp the fabric of space-time. Anything that passes too close, from a wandering star to a photon of light, gets captured.
Most black holes are the condensed remnants of a massive star, the collapsed core that remains following an explosive supernova. However, the black hole family tree has several branches, from tiny structures on par with a human cell to enormous giants billions of times more massive than our sun.
Simultaneous news conferences are scheduled in Brussels, Tokyo, Santiago, Shanghai, and Taipei, and you can watch the announcement live here.
Exciting news, definitely, but now we can’t get the Muse song out of our heads.
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