On Wednesday morning,Watch Lost Bullet Online the National Science Foundation and the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released what they say is the first recorded image of a massive black hole. And it is stunning.
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The image is a composite of images taken from five petabytes worth of data that was captured by a series of radio dishes laid out around Earth that allowed the project to capture continuous data from the black hole even while Earth rotated.
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The black hole is 6.5 billion -- BILLION-- times more massive than our own sun and is 55 million light years from Earth.
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