First Image of a Black Hole!

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black hole at the center of M87, finding the dark central shadow in accordance with General Relativity, further demonstrating the power of this 100 year-old theory.

I will continue updating this description with more links.

Animations and simulations with English text:
L. R. Weih & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Video of observation of M87 courtesy of:
C. M. Fromm, Y. Mizuno & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Video of observation of SgrA* courtesy of
C. M. Fromm, Y. Mizuno & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Z. Younsi (University College London)

Video of telescopes in the array 2017:
C. M. Fromm & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Animations and simulations (no text):
L. R. Weih & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Special thanks to Patreon supporters:
Donal Botkin, Michael Krugman, Ron Neal, Stan Presolski, Terrance Shepherd, Penward Rhyme

Scale animation by Maria Raykova

[alexanderlaurin]

For everyone who complains about it being so blurry.
You realize how far away it is right?

[daisyyg]

i wanna go in creative mode and explore space

[jeff]

Great job illustrating what micro arc-seconds looks like. Thank you.

[forbes]

Man, It’s sad how Stephen hawking never got to see this.

[Timocracy]

Came home after a grueling day at work, absolutely exhausted.
Yet, the release of all this research and the image have wonderously lifted my spirit. What a time to be alive.

[ivansidorov]

Light: Travels 54 million light years across the space
Humanity: Forms itself, develops technology and catches it at the last moments
Internet: It's blurry doe

[simoncowell]

This is a historic moment. This image will now be used in the science books for schools and colleges as the first image of a black hole

[TechnologistAtWork]

I think it's more impressive that Einstein came up with the general relativity without even having access to any of this tech we have today, he just mathematically predicted its existence. The man was a living super computer.

[happyarewewhosmile]

0:33 anyone else realize the back of Yu-Gi-Oh cards got the shadow-realm 100% right

[cosmopolitan]

First "... the gravity of the situation..."
Now, in 4:25, "... same ... features confirming beyond a SHADOW OF DOUBT.."
He's a real comedian.

[shubhamjha]

Your previous video got me 1000x more excited for this

[mizukuruma]

This is actually how it looked like 53.5 million years ago, the black hole may not be looking like this in the present, but still fascinating :o

[ProCenb]

Warning : The picture of Sagittarius A* in this video is not an actual picture but a simulation, according to comments on the corresponding video linked in the sources, comments made by someone from the RelAstro Group.

This is probably gonna be drowned under the other comments here, but it's still worth mentionning.

[ponkumaran]

A big round of applause for all those scientists in that picture and many others who contributed to this!

[ebyagrue]

4:24 "confirming beyond a *shadow* of a doubt"
WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS?

[drummerman]

Only 2 videos in from this channel and I’m already blown away enough to sub to it. I can’t wait to binge this channel this weekend. :)

[IcarusGravitas]

I'm a high school astronomy teacher and you are my new best friend. Thank you for this!!!

[entrippyZ]

The fact that It looks dead on what we predicted makes me proud to be a human

[tigdogsbody]

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Team should get a Nobel Prize !!!

[theoverseer]

The fact that we have a photo of a black hole, as well as gravitational waves, is IMMENSELY incredible