First Glimpse At A Black Hole
Year: 2017 (Image Released In 2019)
Famously, many scientists believed in the potential of a theoretical “black hole” in our universe. Yet people like Albert Einstein were not convinced, but Einstein rarely outright dismissed the possibility of anything. Black holes are essentially points of gravitational collapse in space with infinite density and infinitesimal volume. They consume all matter and light that gets too close, often creating a disk of superheated material falling into the black hole itself. Einstein would have loved to have seen one of the biggest surprising scientific findings of the last decade when we proved black holes exist. In 2017, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration captured the first image of a black hole. While famously very dark, we were lucky enough to have a black hole with a quasar that offered some light to capture an image.