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A black hole is formed when a star dies with such a high gravitational force that all matter gets sucked into it and even light cannot escape it. Twitter via @ehtelescope

Astronomers unveil first photo of black hole and it's orange!


Astronomers on April 10 unveiled the first photo of a black hole, one of the star-devouring monsters scattered across the Universe and obscured by impenetrable shields of gravity.

The image of a dark core with a flame-orange halo of gas and plasma shows a supermassive black hole 50 million lightyears away in a galaxy known as M87, they announced during simultaneous press conferences in Brussels, Shanghai, Tokyo, Washington, Santiago and Taipei.

Data needed to construct the picture was gathered in April 2017 by the Event Horizon Telescope, a joined-up network of eight radio telescopes spread across the globe.

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