In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) released the first-ever images of a black hole. The resulting pictures, of a blurry orange swirl, were, in truth, images of the black hole’s shadow on glowing gas. That’s because a black hole is a…
In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) released the first-ever images of a black hole. The resulting pictures, of a blurry orange swirl, were, in truth, images of the black hole’s shadow on glowing gas. That’s because a black hole is a…