Peek into Space
- POSTED ON: 27 Apr, 2019
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- POSTED BY: Obuli Chandran
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On April 10, 2019, like millions of others, I was eagerly awaiting the release of the picture of one of the extreme objects in the universe. It is a picture of a region in space where gravity is enormous enough to trap all of matter if it was close enough. Even light isn’t shown any mercy. Yes, we are talking about black holes. And who doesn’t love a black hole?
Space subject
The recently released photo of the black hole caused much excitement around the world because a black hole had never been seen before. The target object, the supermassive black hole in the centre of giant galaxy M87 is 6.5 billion times the mass of the sun, and is 55 million light years away. When viewed from Earth it is so small.
Watch this video to find out how this famous picture was captured.
The writer is a Science Educator and Communicator at Mango Education.