Shadowy first image of the black hole revealed

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Last week, the 200-person Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team revealed at simultaneous press conferences held in six countries that it has managed, in its almost 20 years, to represent the shadow of a black hole for the first time. Although the bright luminous ring that surrounds the black hole in the heart of Messier 87, a giant elliptical galaxy located 53 million light-years from Earth, appeared largely as expected, it nevertheless made the newspapers, computer screens and TVs worldwide. The EHT team now wants to sharpen its images. This could help them test the predictions of Albert Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity and understand the physics of how black holes feast on the matter around them and throw powerful jets. visible from all over the universe.