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‘Seeing the unseeable’: Scientists reveal first photo of black hole

are monstrous celestial entities exerting gravitational fields so vicious that no matter or light can escape.

The announcement was made in simultaneous news conferences in Washington, Brussels, Santiago, Shanghai, Taipei and Tokyo. Black holes, phenomenally dense celestial entities, are extraordinarily difficult to observe by their very nature despite their great mass. This is known as the black hole’s shadow or silhouette. The scientists said Einstein’s theory predicted the shape of the shadow would be almost a perfect circle, as it turned out to be.

“Science fiction has become science fact,” University of Arizona astronomy professor Daniel Marrone said.

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