Astronomers may have taken a black hole for the first time – Space – Science

To make a black hole is not easy. There is no light out of them, and even the nearest black hole is very far away. However, for some time, astronomers have been planning to drill a black hole in Sagittarius A *, located in the center of our galaxy, at 25,000 light-years away.

L & # 39; EDO announced plans to photograph a black hole in 2017, stating that six of the world's largest radio telescopes, including the ALMA telescope in Chile and the James Clark Maxwell telescope in Hawaii, would be used to accomplish this task.

Scientists hoped to capture the surface of the black hole, the so-called horizon of events. This is the limit that even light can not cross. There is such gravity in the event horizon that light enters the orbit of the black hole just as the planet is in the orbit of the stars. With a telescope, you may be able to watch it and capture it.

Next week, we will discover if astronomers have succeeded in making their projects a reality and, for the first time in history, to capture a black hole in photography.