Best Moments of 2019 Spotlight: We Got the FIRST-EVER Pic of a Black Hole

Sassafras Soothsayer

"Dude. That's a black hole!" In April 2019, we got to see where all of our stray socks and hair ties vanish into, finally. Since the discovery of the black hole in 1916, astronomers have been trying to crack exactly what a black hole is and what the heck it looks like. On April 10, 2019, astronomers captured the first-ever image of a black hole in the behemoth, elliptical galaxy M87 which ... ...more

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