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A language teacher gave a Hawaiian name – Powehi – to the black hole described in an image produced in a landmark experiment.
Professor Larry Kimura of the University of Hawaii-Hilo Hawaiian named this cosmic object, reported on Thursday 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.
Powehi means "unfathomable dark creation without ornaments" or "dark source embellished with infinite creation" and comes from Kumulipo, a Hawaiian singing song of the 18th century. The po is a dark and deep source of endless creation, while wehi, rewarded with embellishments, is one of po's descriptions by singing, the newspaper reported.
"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.
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Information provided by: Honolulu Star-Advertiser, http://www.staradvertiser.com
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