2019
Breakthrough
of the year
Seen from an imaginary planet, the black hole in the galaxy M87 warps spacetime and pours out energy.
https://vis.sciencemag.org/breakthrough2019/video/opener.mp4
Darkness made visible
An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of a black hole
Massive, ubiquitous, and in some cases as big as our Solar
System, black holes hide in plain sight. The effect of their gravity on
objects around them and, lately, the gravitational waves emitted when
they collide reveal their presence. But no one had ever seen one
directly—until April. That’s when an international team of radio
astronomers released a startling close-up image of a black hole’s
“shadow,” showing a dark heart surrounded by a ring of light created by
photons zipping around it. Heino Falcke of Radboud University in
Nijmegen, the Netherlands, a member of the team that produced the image,
said the first glimpse felt like “looking at the gates of hell.” That
evocative image is Science’s 2019 Breakthrough of the Year.
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