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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) -- a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes
forged through international collaboration
-- was designed to capture images of a black hole.
Today, in coordinated press conferences across the globe,
EHT researchers reveal that they have succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of
a supermassive black hole and its shadow.
This breakthrough was announced in a series of six papers published
in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The image reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87,
a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster.
This black hole resides 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5-billion times that of the Sun.