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”.........................................
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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