THE FIRST IMAGE OF BLACK HOLE We are looking into space, into towards galaxy, a giant galaxy 53 5 million light year away from us A very very big galaxy which was suspected to host a supermassive blac.
THE FIRST IMAGE OF BLACK HOLE -We are looking into space, into towards galaxy, a giant galaxy 53.5 million light-year away from us A very very big galaxy which was suspected to host a supermassive black hole in the very center Hundred and one year ago someone discovered a streak of light which is plasma shooting out of center of the Milky Way (Our galaxy) marking the supermassive black hole I never believed that this black hole as big as people said until we saw that This is the nuclear of galaxy Messier87 (M87) and the first ever image of the black hole What is black hole? -A black hole is a region of spacetime exhibiting such strong gravitational effects that nothing—not even particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light—can escape from inside it -At the very center of the black hole is Singularity A region where the spacetime curvature becomes infinite A point that break all the physic laws -The boundary of the region from which no escape is possible is called the event horizon That means if you go there, you will never comeback Type of Black hole ACCORDING TO THE THEORY, THERE ARE TYPE OF BLACK HOLE: -Stellar Black hole from when a massive star collapses They have mass ranging from about to several tens of our Sun’s mass -Primordial black hole, which would have mass much smaller than that of our Sun No one has ever discovered a miniature black hole but it's possible that primordial black holes could have formed shortly after the "Big Bang," which is thought to have started the universe 13.7 billion years ago -Supermassive black hole, which can have a mass equivalent to billions of suns, likely exist in the centers of most galaxies, including our own galaxy And the image we saw is this type of Black hole How the image was made? - A black hole isn't an easy thing to photograph, not even the light can escape from it By definition, they are invisible So how can you take a picture of a black hole? -Actually we can “see” it’s shadow Despite that fact, we still need an earth-size telescope which clearly impossible to made to take picture of a black hole But build one earth-size telescope is imposible so they put telescopes across the globe banded together to form a consortium known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) -Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is an international collaboration that has formed to continue the steady long-term progress on improving the capability of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) at short wavelengths in pursuit of this goal This technique of linking radio dishes across the globe to create an Earth-sized interferometer -the picture was form by telescope: + South Pole Telescope (SPT) + Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) + IRAM 30-meter telescope + Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) + Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) + James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) + The Submillimeter Array (SMA) + Arizona Radio Observatory/Submillimeter-wave Astronomy (ARO/SMT) + The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) -Processing the massive amount of the data of eight telescopes can generate was a challenge in its own right Katie Bouman, a scientist of MIT, had to develop algorithms to take petabytes of data and make sense of it -It’s just like a puzzle with infinite number of possibilities How we know which one is right? Even we already have few sample or simulations of black hole, But we don’t know those simulations is right or not In fact, a lot of things different in reality compare to theories more or less -But they had overcome all of it and confirm the theory of Albert Einstein about black hole -Thank EHT collaboration for proving that Black hole does exit and taking us one more step further on discover the universe Thank you for listening