First published at 04:28 UTC on April 22nd, 2017.
A network of telescopes stretching from Hawaii, to Antarctica to Spain, aimed at the heart of our galaxy for five nights straight. Astronomers may have snapped the first-ever picture of a black hole. It will take months to develop the image, but if …
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A network of telescopes stretching from Hawaii, to Antarctica to Spain, aimed at the heart of our galaxy for five nights straight. Astronomers may have snapped the first-ever picture of a black hole. It will take months to develop the image, but if scientists succeed the results may help peel back mysteries about what the universe is made of and how it came into being. Our Sun is currently orbiting around Sagittarius A.
"Instead of building a telescope so big that it would probably collapse under its own weight, we combined eight observatories like the pieces of a giant mirror," said Michael Bremer, an astronomer at the International Research Institute for Radio Astronomy (IRAM) and a project manager for the Event Horizon Telescope. "This gave us a virtual telescope as big as Earthabout 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) is diameter."
The bigger the telescope, the finer the resolution and level of detail. The targeted supermassive black hole is hidden in plain sight, in the center of the Milky Way in a region called the 'Sagittarius A' constellation, approximately 27,000 light years from Earth.
Article: https://phys.org/news/2017-04-astronomers-piece-image-black-hole.html
To explore the Universe with free 3D simulation software (like we used for this video):
Space Engine http://spaceengine.org/ (not available on MAC)
Solar System Scope http://www.solarsystemscope.com/
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