Daily Archives: April 10, 2019


And Here It Is…

This is the first ever photograph of a black hole.  Not what you expected?  Well, to a VERY small degree, that’s because I lied to you in my last post when I said that it would be the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, Sag A*.  This is actually the center of M87, a supermassive galaxy in the constellation Virgo.  Although it is about 53 million light-years away, it is apparently large enough that it made a better target than Sag A*.  But the EHT team reports that an image of Sag A* is coming soon. […]