“Einstein himself wasn’t really sure that black holes existed,” he said.
#Picture of black hole tv
More than a century after the existence of black holes was first hinted at in Einstein’s theory of general relativity, the impossibly dense regions of space continue to captivate the public imagination, showing up in movies, TV shows, and science-fiction novels too numerous to name.ĭoeleman believes one reason for that is that they have remained shrouded in mystery for so long.
“I think this image could rank up there with those other images because we’re seeing something we never thought we could see.” “This is a real breakthrough,” said Doeleman, a senior research fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). The image, the first-ever of a black hole, is destined for the shortlist of iconic images not only for what it can tell astronomers and physicists about how gravity and general relativity work under the most extreme conditions, but also because it captures what EHT Director Sheperd Doeleman called “a one-way door from our universe.” Researchers at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just unveiled the latest. In the annals of science, there are a few images - think the “pale blue dot” captured by Voyager I or Apollo 8’s “Earthrise” - that have both captured the public imagination and offered scientists insight into how the universe works.
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