First-ever black hole image gets team of scientists $3m prize
The 347 scientists who collaborated to produce the world’s first black hole image were honoured on Thursday with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, winning $3million dollars for what is known as the “Oscars of science”.........................................
telescope
On April 10,,, the team had published the first image of a
supermassive black hole
circled by a flame-orange halo of
white hot plasma....... The team spent over a decade simulating an Earth-sized computational telescope
that combined the signals received by eight radio telescopes with their sights trained on the
Messier 87
(M87) galaxy,,, 55 million light years away..,........... © Infinity X
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