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Next Week Humans Will Get Their First Look at a Black Hole

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Mark your calendars for next Wednesday: You won’t want to miss the chance to possibly see “something no human has ever seen before.” That’s how Popular Mechanics is framing the big reveal scientists are expected to make—a photo of Sagittarius A*, a black hole in the Milky Way 25,000 light-years away. Per a statement from the European Southern Observatory, six simultaneous pressers will be held around the globe, at which researchers will present “the first result” of the Event Horizon Telescope project, a two-year initiative that trained a network of radio telescopes worldwide on Sagittarius A*, USA Today reports. That result is widely anticipated to be the first-ever photo of a black hole, though curiosity has been piqued as to what exactly that picture will entail.

That’s because black holes are technically invisible, as they suck up all electromagnetic radiation and present as, well, black, per ScienceAlert, which also notes that the logistics around taking a photo of Sagittarius A* are further complicated by the fact that the black hole is smothered in dust and gas, and that spacetime in the vicinity of a black hole is “weird.”

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19 Comments on Next Week Humans Will Get Their First Look at a Black Hole

  1. “Next Week Humans Will Get Their First Look at a Black Hole”

    Sorry. I’m just not all that interested in stargazing at Michelle Obama’s starfish.

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