Amazing but true: We can now see black holes! The Event Horizon Telescope just released a second, direct image of hot gas swirling around a supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87.
Conditions around the hole appear to have changed a lot over the course of one year. This is the first step toward black hole *movies.*
https://eventhorizontelescope.org/M87-one-year-later-proof-of-a-persistent-black-hole-shadow #science #astronomy #space #astrodon
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