Zooming in to the Heart of Messier 87

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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of a black hole. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow.

This zoom video starts with a view of ALMA and zooms in on the heart of M87, showing successively more detailed observations and culminating in the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole’s shadow.

Credit:
ESO/L. Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2, ESA/Hubble, RadioAstron, De Gasperin et al., Kim et al., EHT Collaboration. Music: Niklas Falcke

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Wow zooming is billion times faster than the speed of light

phantomreloaded

What a time to be alive. Science rules!!

dbprod.

I guess I'm safe to congratulate them on the Nobel price. What an astonishing project

YaBoiFetz

Absolutely breathtaking. That humanity have been able to do this blows my mind.

clintc

The best achievment of 2019?? This kind of things deserve to be recognized worldwide, there's no way to compare this with any other we've seen even in the last decade.. they captured something that by nature cant be seen.. just amazing!!!

nicolasmunoz

Such a nice soundtrack added to this fascinating zooming keep it up ESO, thanks

wasimakram

Tears are starting to drop!😢 this is magnificent. Imagine how old this image is and how much bigger Messier 87 could really be …

psixakias

OMG! Just at the moment the video closes on the image of the black hole, my cat turns around and sticks her tail up.
The resemblance is uncanny!!!!

graphite

Victory of mankind over all the scientific expeditions. This is a very beautiful, breath taking image of a black hole. Science tells us, pure black can be so beautiful.

arushi

I still wish Stephen Hawking was alive to see this groundbreaking evidence of black holes. RIP

ImEranga

That 'Galaxy' is 55 million light years away! And here I'm trying to zoom a thing 2 kms away with my 'Galaxy' phone, and getting an image so blurry with 8x zoom that the Night King is gonna fall dead by seeing it.

rounakbaheti

Honestly how the team achieved this is unbelievable.
Each site/telescope had to be perfectly synched in time with one another, the weather conditions had to be perfect on every site (basically half way across the world) and each team had to communicate and coordinate with each other to the last second.
And the amount of not GB, not TB but PB they generated during this project was so vast I think it took them many months to process all the data using the most advanced and powerful computers.

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