The photo of a black hole was broadcast for the first time in the history of the universe

Scientists at the Event Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) today presented the first image of a black hole, one of the greatest mysteries in the universe. "Although we know its existence, we have never seen it, let 's see it," said one of the scientists at a presentation made simultaneously in eight countries.

The image was obtained from the collaborative work of a network of eight observatories located in different parts of the world and shows a yellow ring located more than 53.3 million light-years away from the Earth. "We do not know what is hiding behind the hole, what gets into it no longer comes out," said one of the scientists at the presentation.

The event horizon of a black hole, one of the most violent places in the universe, is the point of no return in which everything (stars, planets, gas, dust , all forms of electromagnetic radiation, including light) are absorbed. hopeless

"If we are immersed in a clear region, like a sparkling gas disk, we expect a black hole to create a shadow-like dark region, which Einstein's general relativity had predicted , which we had never seen before, "explained the President of the Council. Heino Falcke, EHT Scientist, Radboud University, The Netherlands. "This shadow, caused by gravitational tilt and light capture by the event horizon, says a lot about the nature of these fascinating objects and allowed us to measure the enormous mbad of the M87 black hole. ".

According to the Telam agency, one of the observatories involved in the project is the Chilean Alma, located in the Atacama Desert, and described as "the most modern and the most sensitive in the world. ".

The revealed image shows a black circle surrounded by a red incandescent halo. It was captured after the coordinated sighting campaign of eight sites in total from Spain, Hawaii and Arizona in the United States; Mexico, Chile and South Pole. Its mbad is 6,500 million times greater than that of the Sun.