Editor's Note: On April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope released the first ever black hole image. Read the story here.
The First Close-Up View of a Black Hole
An Earth-sized telescope will capture the unseeable
By Sarah Scoles
Apr 1, 2018 12:00 AMNov 15, 2019 4:00 PM
Decades of simulations suggest this is what gas and dust look like spiraling around a black hole. We could soon see the real thing. (Credit: Roen Kelly/Discover)
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