How Astronomers Took The First Ever Image Of A Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope has become the first ever to take an image of a supermassive black hole. The black hole is located 55 million light-years away in the Messier 87 galaxy.
Following is a transcript of the video:
What you are seeing is the first ever image of a black hole. Maybe it doesn’t look spectacular at first. But consider this: Black holes by their very nature are invisible.
Because their gravitational pull is so strong that not even light can escape them. So for many years, astronomers thought that an image like this was impossible. How do you take a picture of something that does not emit light?
Well, it starts with a small team of innovators. And ends with a telescope that’s unlike anything the world has ever seen. Now, despite major advances in telescope technology there is no single telescope on Earth that can take a picture of a black hole.
They’re all too small. So, astronomers innovated. If one telescope couldn’t do the job, then perhaps 8 would - and they were right. They used 8 radio telescopes stationed at different points across the world. And kept them all in synch with powerful atomic clocks. They call the effort the Event Horizon Telescope.
This series of telescopes, combined, has about the same capabilities as a telescope as large as our entire planet. And for the first time in history, it has shown us what a black hole around 55 million light years away looks like. This black hole is actually a supermassive black hole.
It’s about 6.5 billion times as massive as our Sun - that’s enormous even compared to other supermassive black holes and lives in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy. And as far as experts can tell, it looks EXACTLY like what Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicted. Here’s a simulation of what the Event Horizon Team thought the black hole would look like. And here’s the real image.
The light you see here is what’s called the accretion disk. It’s a disk of light that forms around the black hole when a star travels too close and is broken apart in the process. But the most important part of this photo is where there is no light. That dark circle in the center, which measures 25 billion miles across.
That right there, is proof that black holes look and behave how astronomers thought. More specifically, that they actually have an edge. It’s a place of no return, which astronomers call the event horizon. Once you cross the event horizon, the black hole’s gravity is so strong that you cannot escape it. Not you, nor the fastest spacecraft, not even the fastest thing in the universe: light.
That’s why the edge and everything beyond it are black. Trapped inside the black hole’s gravitational grip. And this image may be just the beginning.
The Event Horizons Telescope team has also turned its sights on another black hole. One that is closer to home, called Sagittarius A*. It’s the supermassive black hole at the center of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. But it’s significantly smaller than the one in Messier 87.
So it will be more difficult to image. And since it took astronomers two years to combine and analyze data for this first image it may be a while before we see what other black holes look like.
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How Astronomers Took The First Ever Image Of A Black Hole

[@yogesh4997]

Again it proves that Albert Einstein was a genius.

[@joshtmp6936]

just imagine how did he even predict it

[@javeddand1217]

yep .He was

[@kiranecromancer3679]

How idiots? He thoughts black holes are superficial

[@DannyDoesStuff]

Einstein never said it was possible to take pictures of black holes. Correct me if I'm wrong, though.

[@har.jasmine5494]

@@DannyDoesStuff He didn't say it was impossible either. It'll just be hard trying to take one pic.

[@ItsJohn.]

10% :Why is it blurry? 90% : *Memes*

[@sailajaukkadapu6141]

it's really disappointing that they worked so hard to get first ever image of a black hole and people are making memes out of it instead of appreciating it.

[@sci8865]

My EYES 👀🔥

[@spectreshepard1]

sailaja ukkadapu I agree

[@dio66791]

@@sailajaukkadapu6141 yeah

[@brianhoare3190]

Prolly Samsung

[@lennoxalvarino7031]

Black Hole: you won't be seeing me humans Humans: Hold my beer

[@boomingwithbanna]

LennoxHAPO 4 more like Einstein hold my beer

[@YoutubeRON1]

🤣🤣

[@TsunaXZ]

Discovered the real picture of blackhole **Realized it was a photo of the past**

[@qwertymanova2652]

It's showing the image of that Blackhole from 55million years ago

[@qwertymanova2652]

@Nothing in Particular,whyyyyyyyyyy?????

[@qwertymanova2652]

@Nothing in Particular,kay

[@user-oo6ml3pe3d]

Yeah cuz if this black hole is 80,000,000 light years away or 80,000,000,000 idk that mean that light need 80,000,000/80,000,000,000 years to the our earth soo we finally have a picture😕

[@user-oo6ml3pe3d]

@@qwertymanova2652 i think 80,000,0000

[@sla5hh]

2 years later: Yes WE FOUND ANOTHER BLACK HOLE Scientist: thats the same one as before... . _______________________________ .

[@ConnorEllisMusic]

We know about so many black holes. There are trillions of galaxies and at the center of each one is a black hole.

[@sharpvolt2669]

SquaredSpekz - Connor Ellis And even more in the galaxy!

[@AndrewH1994]

Mr Satan harder to see cause it isn’t very active. This one is extremely active as we see it right now and it’s easy to see the shadow of the black hole compared to a dim inactive galactic nucleus

[@arcollaboration9380]

@@ConnorEllisMusic yes

[@doppelsotria4620]

@@AndrewH1994 Wasn't it extremely active 55 million years ago?

[@0AlphaAndOmega0]

Wish I could toss my student loans and mother in law in that hole!!!

[@markk9696]

Vinnie A haha good one

[@unavarage5726]

I wish could toss my life in there.

[@0AlphaAndOmega0]

@@Barsabus I'll toss your mom's salad first !

[@trentonsheffer5198]

Lol

[@jayrolleful]

I'd toss my garbage PC in there

[@samalass466]

Einstein so smart at predicting science that he predicted accurate stuff decades after he died...

[@UJD1grr]

so did Dmitri Mendeleev

[@AliasMark69]

Reality....... Albert was No Einstein, in fact he was no real genius. He was entirely wrong about damn near everything he erroneously assumed was real. The universe is Electromagnetic just like the physics here on Earth. Gravity/Gas/Fusion theories are all wrong. Black Holes, Big Bang, Dark Matter, Pulsar Stars are all fictional nonsense.....Stupidity on Steroids.

[@Pi-gp5bz]

Thank you to all the peoples who contributed to let the whole world finally see a picture of a black hole. You guys are truly amazing❤❤

[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

Next image: a habitable exoplanet

[@rilbitz8364]

Seems plausible, since technology doublws every couple of years

[@twddylan2667]

We have already discovered habitable eco-planets...

[@ifratjahan7050]

Exoplanet 😂😂

[@ronaldraygun9093]

TWDdylan I don’t think I’ve seen any images yet

[@SkyJamPH]

@@ifratjahan7050 What's so funny?

[@dhanushkumar607]

I guess Soon Huawei will release a device which can go zoom till the black hole..

[@Kurayami04]

😂😵

[@hriveshrampersad5568]

🔥😂😂😂

[@vedantgoraksha9207]

😝

[@_guru]

Mass jii...Tamizhan...

[@marygracej.andrade7916]

P30 Pro

[@nitroussoda134]

This is so amazing! I wish Sir Stephen Hawking was alive to see this, R.I.P

[@rantech1907]

I'm sure he saw it on the 1998 movie poster "Armageddon"

[@qwertymanova2652]

Yes

[@chazyeast6819]

What if he can travel anywhere where he wants with his soul

[@Scorch428]

He knew. It wasnt any different from what he thought, really

[@kiranecromancer3679]

Scorch428 if he lived till then, he would finally get his Nobel prize idiot

[@syedali1401]

US Citizens: Decrease Nasa Budget. Nasa: Look we found a black hole.

[@marcosenarosa4877]

Lmao we are spending more money on a military budget to protect a dying planet. NASA will literally be the reason the human species lives on

[@kevina2052]

@@marcosenarosa4877 Private Space exploration will be, not NASA.

[@MediaSubliminal]

@lagen pul because it isn't real.

[@therealbomb_com8774]

@@MediaSubliminal Proof?

[@wallahhabibiiii]

@@MediaSubliminal no because its really far away.

[@schoidz5066]

When I'm old, I'm gonna tell my grandkids about The war for KZbin, the first foldable phone, the first smartphone, and the first black hole picture, the wonderful thing of laughing because of a funny picture on our screen, us colonizing Mars, Adpocalypse 1 and 2, and polar bears... yea

[@jeans2460]

"I remember when I was in the first great youtube war. We drove them off for months, but there were too many of them."

[@schoidz5066]

@@jeans2460 "The robots, there were too many, the army couldn't stop them"

[@thanos4959]

Mal don’t forget to tell them about memes I hope memes don’t get forgotten

[@schoidz5066]

@@thanos4959 By 2050, memes are just gonna be a blank paper and then children will laugh, so yea

[@joshtmp6936]

hey its you again the isheep from the other comment!

[@dusscode]

Astronomers: “We took a picture of the black hole for the first time!” Huawei: “Hold by beer.”

[@nuttskippy6293]

Marwan Amireh Nokia: “Hold my drugs”

[@vegetaandslaine8722]

I am so proud of innovators and all the people who were part of this task!! Thank you

[@spelte3518]

imagine if someone deleted one of the images......

[@magikalguru2515]

Omfg that would be horrible prob just go jump off a cliff after all that work they put into it

[@ogs_nathan3474]

Hahaha they would kill him or send him to that black hole

[@officertenpennyaintservingyou]

@@ogs_nathan3474 bro, the nearest black hole is at the centre of the galaxy, which it is 26,000 light years away, and no one has reached there. Edit: and that black hole may be the same, but more further. They could just send him to the coldest planet or the sun

[@ogs_nathan3474]

@@officertenpennyaintservingyou yeah thats a better idea 😂

[@StephanMok]

They pieced it together from a whole bunch of data, so it is not exactly as easy as taking a selfie. And since it is a black hole, in case if someone really deleted one of those data, they can just paint the part black(transparent)....

[@mysterym2269]

I didn't even know this was the first image? How is every picture of a black hole I've ever seen an illustration?

[@rentinghouseseveryday3739]

Yes

[@welp4576]

Theres an edited image of this that looks like an OwO

[@craftmasy]

Because no one knows what it looks like until now?

[@ajlucky0076]

It's an artist's impression on what it looks like.

[@jaimevalencia6271]

It was just theory until today

[@MCxSTORMx]

Just shows how insignificant humanity is, we all live on a microscopic speck of dust in the scale of the Universe

[@V0211V]

MC xSTORMx True

[@dawn-blade]

Carl Sagan's sage words will echo in eternity.

[@javojavojavojavo]

What good is the majestic universe if there's no one to witness it.

[@donjuantrumpetajohnson]

@@javojavojavojavo But there isn't anyone to witness it.

[@libraryquiet]

+MC xSTORM+ Speak for yourself, humanity is very significant in relation to the cosmos!

[@macheriecola]

Why does it look more like Dr.Strange's Portal? Any MCU fan?

[@rebix6848]

True...

[@kevina2052]

I've been thinking about this. To anyone confused by the connection between a light year and time, think of it this way. Have you ever heard an echo in a large room, cave.. empty house? An echo is literally the same sound you created bouncing off of a wall or floor hitting your eardrums at a later time. Take this idea of an echo and think of it as an image. Take that empty room and blow it up to the size of space. Light takes time to get to the other side of that room. In this situation, it's an echo of an image from 55 million years ago.. Sound is a lot slower than light, so the fact it took 55 million years for that light to travel all the way to earth is hard to imagine.

[@darkspace5762]

You'll never see my face and live. -blackhole

[@Vikasslytherine]

Maybe that itself is death, no one returns to tell the tale.

[@hdbrosky5378]

Matthew McConaughey- *hold my beer*

[@DawnNLN-ee2kh]

But Kamala !!! PLEEEZE ! LMFAO!

[@Jiuaa]

Next image: Thanos

[@Cuktisntfunny]

Haha

[@brodyspears8290]

You got 8/10 of the squad laughing that was a pretty funny joke

[@rebix6848]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣

[@zemho100yearsago5]

LMAO

[@gowcow49]

They should use this to look at planets that might have life

[@tuiapele153]

GowCow it’s fake so they aren’t.

[@lightinstinct707]

Tuia Pele What’s fake

[@iconic8233]

Tuia Pele what’s fake?

[@iconic8233]

Galzerok yeahh i can tell

For me, even if we found a habitable planet someday, it would be impossible. How on Earth would we be able to transfer our population to a planet that's outside our Solar System? (except Mars) right? I mean, Mars is our only hope if someday the Earth would be destroyed because of *us* . But who knows, maybe 300-500 years from now generations will have invented spaceships that can travel half the speed of light.

[@Ali-ve4km]

1969: moon landing 2019: black hole image 50 Years Later: Dad still missing

[@zamond258]

Lol

[@juanitojavier5894]

Flat earthers are going to eat this up.

[@makishimashougo8021]

Black hole is ...... actually a roasted pancake

[@Mystic-4252]

Interesting to know for me and you !!!!! A roasted pancake that will suck up flat Earthers

[@mart7644]

Flat earthers have a flat brain

[@snoopcat9351]

@@mart7644 and flat chested

[@jjabblePlayStation]

Flat earth is a lie created by NASA to make their Globe more plausible. The real truth is the earth is a Taco. NASA knows this and they have been tracking ''He'' who is coming to devour us. The Day of Devouring is coming and our solar system is really a buffet. Don't let the Lie about a Lie hide the real truth.

[@charimuvilla8693]

A bit disappointed because I wanted more on "how" but great video anyway!

[@gamingfordead]

there is a channel called "veritasium" where the guy explains all the details of the immage :)

[@Rahul31129]

We captured black hole image. What if black hole comes to revenge ? 🤔 Edit: Black hole wants to know your location

[@LoveIncest]

😱😱😱

[@annisaa1206]

then smile and say 'cheese'!

[@englishpaper6421]

It might. Just not in our lifetimes 😅

[@LoveIncest]

@@englishpaper6421 There's where you're wrong. Dark Era, Iron Stars Era and Universal Final Entropy, I'm waiting for you q('-'q)

[@-_leslielopez_-1619]

Then we ded.

[@hanaeve__]

My science teacher showed this in class today, I didn’t even know about it.

[@Quantum6190]

I’m so proud of mankind, even with all the absolutely insane shit happening here, we can still take steps into understanding our universe.

[@friedbread3817]

Samuel Heffner Lol, exactly, look at the ocean.

[@dawn-blade]

Some of us look outwards, but an overwhelming majority focus on superficial unimportant things, like politics and sports. If humanity worked together we could achieve greatness. None of it will matter if we are not able to expand humanity to the stars and beyond and solve our problems on Earth. It's all insignificant compared to the crucial importance of discovery and survival.

[@friedbread3817]

Sword of the Morning *Violence*

[@glaprince]

We are also good at killing each other and destroying the planet...think about all the nuclear weapons, chemical bullshit and all the killings because of oil and other shit...rich getting richer and the poor ones die while everyones watching...yeah I am proud of mankind

[@pootisbird5835]

Light: no one can catch meeee! Black hole: hold my beer

[@Reema_Chaudhary]

Thanks for sharing this and explaining in the simplest way possible...

[@tgaming8745]

Wow. Einstein & S Hawking would have loved to have seen this pic.

[@-4subscriberswithahammerad521]

Now we need to find a way to TRAVEL to the black hole

[@o_KingOfKings_o]

Bruhh

[@mohammedyounis6879]

We cant ...

[@J.ROD_CLASSIFIED]

Quantum tunnelling

[@Alya-tv2gb]

Work on getting on other planets first, then we go for black hole.

[@mr_flibbles_4528]

@@mohammedyounis6879 well yeah we can, it's just the inhabitants would be the far offspring of those who left earth

[@israyaqub4252]

Apple launching Iphone xxs naming "it can take clear picture of blackhole"😂

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

No phone can capture it ever

[@rushiljohar4206]

Good job! Creative work and effort deserves credit.

[@rmshheprd1725]

This video answered all my questions. Thank you

[@jasperj0729]

At the end of the day Einstein still right #TrulyGenius #TheOneandOnly

[@ssantiago5231]

Einstein the hero we deserved

[@onjegin6984]

@@ssantiago5231 Mileva Einstein ?

[@williamdaliege1016]

Einstein didn't believe Black Holes were possible.

[@johnnyramirez621]

Wait einstien had a bet with scientist that black wholes is real😓

[@loganross1861]

🤦‍♂️

[@Justin-Outdoors]

It's funny how we know so little about our own Earth but we know so much about something so far away that can't even be seen clearly

[@dre9532]

Justin Overholtzer it’s really not we discovered 90 percent of the earth and have known what happened in every century plus we have legends that tell the story of earth so yes we do know a lot about earth 🌍

[@Justin-Outdoors]

@@dre9532 science changes every 20 years. Just because we've seen 90% of the Earth doesn't mean we understand it

[@Justin-Outdoors]

@@dre9532 okay so like 90% of our Earth's volume has been unexplored and mostly theory. Our Earth is 2/3 water which most of our aquatic world is unknown. Also there's land creatures that are still being discovered. Also there are many things in biology we are clueless about. This goes on.

[@handle.setUsername]

what don't we know? and there's nothing in deep ocean

[@darwincharles3537]

@@dre9532 you use the term "WE" a lot ! Did YOU actually take part in any of the ekspeditions that evolved around exploring the earth? If not..... shut your piehole

[@HERRO496]

Another great video the commentators voice is so soft and relaxing

[@officialnottimelapse1012]

I think shaggy can escape that black hole using 50% of his power

[@mundanes]

@@Mystic-4252 its a joke

[@snoopcat9351]

@@Mystic-4252 wooosh

[@Kyepo]

dummy, with 2% he can escape the black hole

[@Mystic-4252]

What are you guys wooshing at?

[@Mystic-4252]

Snoop Cat What again?

[@troyo.8294]

Love living on our little marble. Damn, we’re lucky!

[@overcookedwater1947]

The comment section: 40% "Stephen Einstein will be proud!'' 25% "why so blurry?" 25% "congratchulashins to the scientists would worked hard for it!" 15% other stuff

[@dedsec_1765]

Your math is off

[@dedsec_1765]

By 5

[@maniaxxx2984]

Dude....learn how to calculate Properly...

[@mukeshkeshyap8729]

Are u serious 105% Lmao

[@overcookedwater1947]

@@dedsec_1765 I don't see no mistake there ',B-)

[@pianotown6869]

I can even see the horizontal line in that photo FASCINATING!

[@jekyo]

Special thanks to Felix Arvid Kjellberg for letting scientists and astronomers borrow his camera

[@AliSafeermainchannel]

BJ Nedia I'm the only one who got the joke here lol The photo quality really tells whose camera it is 😂

[@JNo-sk5mz]

I'm so glad that I got to see a black hole in my lifetime, and according to this video we may see more. This is one of the biggest scientific discoveries of all time.

[@dawn-blade]

It's incredible to experience this. I didn't experience the Pale Blue Dot, or Earthrise. I'll always cherish that I saw the first ever image of a black hole when it was released. This is one of the wonders of nature. It's all so surreal. Naturally I'll be blown out of my seat if we discover life in a distant star system though. All of these space findings, like the TRAPPIST-1 system, absolutely amaze and terrify me. What a time we live in.

[@marlonborreo]

I'm glad to see other people (outside the scientific community) who are as excited about this as I am. What a time to be alive. This is as big, if not bigger, than the moon landing.

[@shoaibakhtar4389]

Let's declare 10th April as Black hole day 😂

[@kayee3145]

I was born that day

[@SZ.236]

I was born on 11 april

[@ra_alf9467]

29th February, anyone?

[@smortie6089]

And here we think the earth is flat 🌐

[@zemho100yearsago5]

LMAO

[@cinniebun5464]

My brother told me about this today, before I even watched this! I've always been fascinated by black holes.

[@Mope333]

Sammybrown bear is it coming our way? Or it’s just a pic that we got for the 1st time?

[@ouyseanhong5425]

Black hole: I’m gonna destroy anything in my path Flex tape: whole my beer

[@ViperDivinity]

It should be tape my beer

[@mandxll]

Hole my beer

[@dwaynereyes9526]

This is amazing, the first ever photo of the black hole wow

[@joshuakelly1846]

I’m pretty sure people don’t realise how massive this event is. This is a massive milestone in astronomy/ astrophysics

[@seanharmiel4275]

just by watching this gives me goosebumps 😱

[@canwegetsubswithfewvideos]

damn this picture is 55M yrs old.

[@kevincanada165]

FYI not 55 M years. It’s 55 M LIGHT YEARS

[@snoopcat9351]

Are you joking

[@WeabooMoe]

@Reece A uhmmmmmmm , that's not how LIGHT year works bud

[@kaeninne5931]

You lot need to relax it's obviously a joke

[@WeabooMoe]

@Reece A r/woosh?

[@064junaid8]

Thanks for including me 😊

[@sn-qq2ml]

You know this kinda reminds me of that vesause video “what will we miss” cause ive just realized that im alive to see the first image of a balck hole And im gonna be alive for little big things like this

[@bile897]

So excited about this information, I hope space travel is soon enough.

[@WarAndPoetry]

Would be nice but we'll have to find away to make fusion energy and seeing as we cant create amount of heat pressure of a star I dont think itll happen anytime soon sadly

[@Jae-xo7kr]

im hoping a time machine than space travel

[@bile897]

Lil Dee really wish this could happen in my life time, but I’m sure it won’t. Can’t even get the internet to work properly.

[@thanos4959]

Santiago Carbonell I hope so

[@princessamaechi3885]

I hope that black hole is a portal to a parallel universe where my family (especially my little brother), best friends, and I are born with hyperthymesia, where I live next to my best friends so I can hang out and attend the same schools with them, and to confront any bully or pervert that gets in my way

[@tomciod222]

Hello to everyone. I'm learning English and I want to try to talk. I'm interested in astronomy and want to ask about a black hole. Do you think that man will be able to see the horizon of events in person in the future? I will be grateful for every answer :)

[@no_one8224]

Wait, If the the distance is 50 million light years, how many years does it take for light to reach? I don't get it, is the pic from past?

[@andreaslff]

Dude it's just crazy even thinking that.. So 55 million light years away means that the black hole was where we took a pic of it 55 million years ago. So now the black hole might be bigger and maybe closer to us...

[@MadaraUchiha-mw9ee]

if Telescope shaped pentagram maybe they has been taking picture of Hell

[@donjuantrumpetajohnson]

From the movie "Event Horizon"?

[@aternias]

Nobody: Elon: I wanna send a meme through it to see what will happen

[@kynanlol]

Little did you guys know is that since the black hole is 55 million light years away, it is 55 million years behind therefore if the blackhole was capable of looking at Earth, the dinosaur age would almost be extinct.

[@aaronn6725]

It's kinda crazy that they can even take pictures of this or even see into space that far away

[@zachrayy288]

That's fake it is photoshoped! - flat earthers

[@jonathangabriel8568]

Bruh

[@zachrayy288]

@@jonathangabriel8568.__.

[@rantech1907]

@Gabriel Zachary Garlitos No it's not, but the image is on the "Armageddon" movie poster from 1998...so it has to be real.

[@Cuktisntfunny]

@@rantech1907 r/woosh

[@rantech1907]

@Cukt LOL! It's over your head...I was playing along

[@macvirus1354]

Finally something scientific to happen in years... not surgery done on a grape...

[@mehmetpapak4612]

MacVirus karadeliği aç

[@elchapoalv650]

Im so glad we’re alive to witness this ! Wonder what else we witness !

[@icywolfy7689]

SOO COOL I love to learn more about space!

[@mziqbal2003]

This is truly historic moment. An Excellent work of research and collaboration along with painstaking work from Einstein and Hawkings etc. that ultimately bear fruit and Light in dark abyss of our Galaxy. The Black Hole is closely resembled to human Eye. The source of Light absorbsion for Human Being. This is a beautiful divine Imagery. It is like looking into Heaven and Divinity. Human being has done immense progress towards understanding of themselves and universe around them. But there is still so much to be done. Universe is Infinite and Limitless. We must strive towards Progress which is the ultimate way for prosperity for Mankind and make our world more eco friendly by putting effort on creating opportunities to develop sustainable energy natural resources like Sun, Wind, Water and Minerals around the Globe.✨🌠

[@thanos4959]

M Zeeshan Iqbal yes

[@Zubayer_Islam_Rezoan]

Black hole looks just like my adult life- can't get rid of it even if I want to.

[@aelinavean1375]

That is so amazing, I want to know more, seriously

[@rickf.4656]

Correction: we already have the Sagittarius A image.

[@user-we2nf8iy7o]

Woah, my mom showed me that blackhole. I was curious why it was red and orange.

[@lalala8126]

The red and orange colours came from a sun that went too close with the black hole.

[@mr.knightthedetective7435]

We could probably find alien life using Synced Telescope method. Just imagine...

[@melodicnostalgic3823]

No. This object was 20 times the size of our Entire Solar system and that was why it was visible !!! We don't hate Telescopes yet that can magnify to levels that can observe Alien Craft or Alien Planets.

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

But James webb which is 100x more powerful than hubble can zoom enough to observe a closer planets atmosphere

[@hmmhmm7029]

I'm so proud that I am alive to see the first ever picture of a black hole

[@mofuker199]

I'm so excited about this because at some point I realised this will be shown in our textbooks instead of fake ilustrations.

[@subhanzulfiqar5768]

I am so lucky that I can tell my childern I was alive and enjoyed memes when the first image of a black hole came out

[@mhafanno.1890]

Me: *sees black hole image* Still Me: Lools like a donut in space.

[@jonassavimbi2958]

I have seen many holes but this one is magnificent ;)

[@fastlane2914]

The numbers when when talk about space is just mind blowing

[@quincysbusstop1729]

It's normal. They took it from black hole and uploaded it. Suspense will start when black hole will strike for the copyright

[@mrhexed9048]

Interstellar best movie ever 🔥🔥

[@johnsarab4500]

'Event Horizon' - that sounds so cool!

[@spygun2638]

That photo is 55 million light years away Meaning this photo is taken 55 million years ago Cuz it will take that much time for anything to travel that far(speed matters) But guys!!! That black is still present there Cuz black holes take an enormous amount of time to die through the process of hawking radiation It would take sooo much time that none of the galaxies would even exist till the very first black hole dies When it does die it explodes leaves a massive amount of radiation(not sure)

[@muhammadanwar411]

Photo is not taken 55 million years ago. Humans did not exist back then It is a photo of what some thing (black hole) looked like 55 million years ago

[@AngelSnowflakes]

This should be on science insider channel

[@wiIIywanka]

Resolution of the photo is like 3×4 pixels

[@atlasthechamp82]

You basically seeing an image of the past, 55 millions years ago to be precise, so yeah consider that

[@donjuantrumpetajohnson]

@@atlasthechamp82 Huh? LMAO 😂

[@ramshacks9493]

What we really need is a picture of a wormhole and try to find a way of studying it to travel through it if it's real

[@VeritechGirl]

Isn't the next level in interferometry to have a telescope the size of 1 AU (or something like that)?

[@aonkhan7313]

I watched this video while eating Donut lol 😂 such a coincidence

[@isaacpadilla4114]

That’s actually how the black hole looked like 55 million years ago not how it looks like now since it’s 55 million light years away. Yes, I did like my own comment.

[@zachjenkins3292]

This shows that by inovation and creativity can do the impossible

[@JerKur18]

MORE TELESCOPES!!!

[@deepcool8152]

Can you give us a 3d view of a black hole not 2d? I can't even imagine how it will look :D Edit: i'm talking about the part shown at 2:25

[@midas8877]

People don't know a black hole is a sphere

[@muhammadanwar411]

Well no one can Bcz what you will be seeing from outside is two dimensional surface of event horizon and any thing went in it would look printed on this two dimensional surface from outside. In order to see a real black hole in 3d. One will have to jump in it but once gone you can never escape and if you take a pic you will never be able to send it to us

[@deepcool8152]

@@muhammadanwar411 ok then don't mind the black hole,lets say i want a 3d view of spacetime bend up by a planet or star .

[@blueocean_123]

I m so happy...😊🎉⚫

[@stimpen12]

Amazing!

[@void8016]

Chances are it could move anywhere. But that Accretion disk looks pretty cool

[@welp4576]

Theres an edited image of this that looks like an OwO

[@eddiesuarez5160]

Link

[@nobody6317]

Yeah the meme

[@friedbread3817]

1 2 Welp is slang for well.. this is KZbin..

[@friedbread3817]

1 2 What does this NOT have to do with KZbin? If you didn't notice, half the comments on this video are about something else just like any other video. How are they entertained by KZbin cause they simply said they found an image of it? Are you new to KZbin because YT is full of slangs and abbreviations. This isn't an essay or a 'Be perfect at grammar' challenge. It's a damn KZbin video. Most likely half the other people in the comment section like to say 'OwO'. Just cause you like OwO doesn't make you a fuckwit, it makes you someone with an interest. They could also be joking. Not to be rude but I'm just informing you the possibilities of this comment and about YT itself.

[@friedbread3817]

1 2 No it's not, it's hard to think of a good username and I should know. Also how that laziness and ignorance If you're using 'Well' but removing one l and replacing it with a p? It's the same exact number of letters in the word. It's a damn username it doesn't need to make sense at all. It's how most people say it in real life and if you use 'Welp' it sounds better and normal to most people. If you're going to get upset about incorrect grammar please leave KZbin.

[@ihavetubes]

The one ring to rule them all.

[@muhammadzakaurrehman9252]

New topic in science,great

[@axolotlgaming9144]

only the speed of galaxies at the edge of the universe can escape because they go FASTER than light

[@justamazing9219]

Well goku can escape from it.