First ever black hole image unveiled

By Can Erozden</p> <p>ANKARA (AA) – An international collaboration on Wednesday unveiled the first ever image of the black hole on the Internet.</p> <p>Having captured the first image of the black hole, the Event Horizon Telescope aired this cosmic object's photo during live news conference on YouTube.</p> <p>&quot;Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87. The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun,&quot; the Event Horizon Telescope said on Twitter.</p> <p>&quot;From Brussels: 'Finally! No more simulations. You are looking for the very first time, at a real black hole,'&quot; it added. </p> <p>Earlier, NASA said in a Twitter post: &quot;History is being made! A global network of telescopes has been working to capture the first ever image of a black hole.”</p> <p>The news conference was streamed live in Brussels, Chilean capital Santiago, Taiwan's Taipei, Tokyo and Washington.</p> <p>In the field of astrophysics, a black hole is regarded as a massive cosmic object in space, which can suck up stars, planets, gas or any kind of electromagnetic radiation approaching it.