The black hole that played in the first picture of this guy to take a picture has received a name.
The now famous swirling void will be known as Powehi, a Hawaiian word attributed by a language teacher.
And the meaning of the name, chosen by Professor Larry Kimura of the University of Hawaii-Hilo Hawaiian, is just as dramatic as the image and the work that produced it.
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It means "the unfathomable dark creation adorned" or "the dark source embellished with endless creation" and comes from Kumulipo, a song of Hawaiian creation of the 18th century. The po is a dark and deep source of endless creation, while wehi, rewarded with embellishments, is one of the po's descriptions of singing, reported The Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
The world's first image of a black hole revealed Wednesday was created using data from eight radio telescopes around the world.
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2/30 NASA celebrates 50 years of escape into space
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3/30 A Hubble Cosmic Couple
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ESA / Hubble & NASA
4/30 Veil Nebula Supernova Remaining
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6/30 Earth of the ISS
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7/30 Black hole Friday
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8/30 NuSTAR
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9/30 Cassiopeia A c
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10/30 Orion capsule splashes
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11/30 Earth observations of Gemini IV in 1965
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13/30 Yellowstone from the space
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14/30 Saturn
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15/30 Worlds apart
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17/30 Great galaxy of magellanic clouds
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18/30 Mars Rover Spirit
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19/30 Aurora morning of the space station
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27/30 Giant relief on Mars
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28/30 Expedition 39 Landing
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(NASA / Bill Ingalls)
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30/30 The Chandra observatory sees a heart in the darkness
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"Having the privilege of giving a Hawaiian name to the very first scientific confirmation of a black hole is very meaningful to me and to my Hawaiian lineage that comes from within," Kimura said in a press release.
A Hawaiian name was justified because the project included two Hawaii telescopes, astronomers said.
"As soon as he said, I almost fell off my chair," said Jessica Dempsey, assistant director of the James Clerk Maxwell telescope at Mauna Kea.
Dempsey was one of 200 scientists who worked on capturing an image of the huge black hole in the M87 galaxy, about 54 million light-years from Earth.
Dempsey said that Powehi fits perfectly with the scientific explanations provided to Kimura.
"We have described what we had seen and that this black hole lit up and lightened the darkness that surrounded it, and it was at that moment that he found the name", a- she declared.
Additional report by Associated Press