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First-Ever Image of a Black Hole Released to Public

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Wes O'Donnell
Apr 10, 2019
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Since the idea of a region of space in which nothing can escape, even light, was first postulated by Einstein’s general relativity, it remained a mathematical concept. Nearly 100 years after Karl Schwarzschild first characterized a black hole from Einstein’s work in 1916, humanity finally has its first glimpse of a black hole.

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