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    Astronomers unveil first-ever photo of a black hole

    by Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times Apr 10, 2019 5 minutes

    In the swirling heart of a distant galaxy, 55 million light-years from Earth, lies a supermassive black hole with a mass 6.5 billion times greater than that of our sun.

    The gravitational pull of this dark beast in the Messier 87 galaxy is so strong that not even light can escape its gaping maw.

    Its powerful gravity bends the fabric of space and time around it, and causes nearby stars to dance like planets.

    Gas and dust spin and churn as they hurtle into its abyss. Matter around it moves so fast that it gets superheated to hundreds of millions of degrees, sending powerful jets of radiation shooting across the cosmos.

    And now, scientists have captured an image of the very edge of this object, a region known as the event horizon, beyond which nothing can hope

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