Photo of a black hole: the picture may be announced by the Event Horizon Telescope team on April 10th

Astronomers say that a major announcement is about to be made on the basis of the findings of the International Event Horizon Telescope project, which, according to experts, could be the very first photographs to show the environment of 39, a black hole. On Wednesday, April 10, the Event Horizon Telescope team will hold several press conferences around the world to announce a "revolutionary result" in its study of black hole environments.

Event Horizon Telescope is an international collaboration that aims to capture images of black hole areas by connecting various radio antennas around the world to create a virtual telescope of the size of the planet Earth. The project started capturing data in 2006.

US, French and Dutch scientists will make their announcement Wednesday at the National Press Club in Washington, while related press conferences will be held simultaneously in Brussels, Santiago, Shanghai, Taipei and Tokyo.

By creating a massive virtual telescope, the Event Horizon Telescope project aims to generate enough magnifying power to highlight black hole environments, allowing for study of its characteristics. Because black holes do not emit light, they can not be seen and are technically invisible. Instead, the Event Horizon telescope seeks to study the areas surrounding a black hole, namely the gas that radiates around it due to its extremely strong gravity, in order to capture images of its overall dynamics.

Black holes are regions of the outer space fabric that exert a gravitational pull force such as nothing, whether it is mass particles or d & # 39; light waves, can not get out. The point in the black hole that nothing can escape is calling its horizon of events. Scientists believe that black holes are formed from the recently collapsed star remains, which absorb all the mass and light of the surrounding areas to enlarge them.

The size of any black hole is always proportional to its mass, so some may only represent a few times the mass of our sun, called stellar black holes, while others are millions or billions of times the mass of the sun – supermassive black holes supposed to anchor the constellations of galaxies.

The Event Horizon Telescope project identified two supermassive black holes to study: Sgr A *, which is at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, and M87, a giant elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Virgo.