mo4ch:>Event horizon: 1st-ever black hole photo to be released in astrophysics milestone (VIDEOS) | Mo4ch News

A team of 200 pioneering scientists from across the globe is preparing to push the limits of scientific achievement and attempt to answer two key questions: is it possible to photograph a black hole and, if so, was Einstein right?The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is comprised of dozens of observatories that scan the area around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, named Sagittarius A*,  to piece together a silhouette of the black behemoth and provide humanity with its first-ever glimpse of a real black hole (as opposed to an artist’s rendering).The “groundbreaking result from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project,” will be delivered in an announcement by the US National Science Foundation on Wednesday, April 10, at 9am EDT (13:00 GMT). Concurrent announcements will be made in Tokyo, Brussels, Taipei, Santiago, and Shanghai.The black hole is 26,000 light years away, making it rather difficult to photograph, which is why the team combined radio telescopes from Ch…