Related Segment Plunging Into The Physics Of The First Black Hole Image Alex Lupsasca Post-Doctoral Junior Fellow, Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature at Harvard University These interviews have been edited for length and clarity. And on Wednesday, just hours after the first black hole image was released, astrophysicist Julie Hlavacek-larrondo at U niversité de Montréal-who will join Science Friday in this week’s special hour-long conversation on black holes- gave her first reactions. Earlier this week, before the announcement, theoretical physicists Alex Lupsasca and Ruth Gregory shared some of the potential implications of the EHT news. Credit: Event Horizon TelescopeĪll week, Science Friday has been speaking with experimentalists and theorists in the astrophysics world about what the discovery might mean for their work. “ It’s the strongest evidence that we have to date for the existence of black holes,” Shep Doeleman, director of EHT, said during a press conference on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.īut, as Avery Broderick, astrophysicist at the University of Waterloo and EHT team member, later said at the announcement: “Now, what does it all mean?” The first image of a black hole.
The silhouette eclipses the photons that have been able to slip from the grip of the black hole’s most inner orbit-the intense gravitational pull of the event horizon.
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) array captured the circular shadow of the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy Messier 87, or M87. On Wednesday, April 10, the world got its very first glimpse of the celestial chasms found at the core of every galaxy: a black hole.
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