Black Hole photograph released

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  • The first ever photograph of a black hole was released on 10 April 2019.
  • Scientists working in the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)
  • Collaboration presented their observations at 6:30 PM IST
  • Sagittarius A, a supermassive black hole site is 26,000 light years away, while the second is at the centre of the supergiant elliptical M87 galaxy in the Virgo constellation.
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