Podcast: How to photograph a black hole

Podcast: How to photograph a black hole

Astronomer Heino Falcke reveals how an international science team photographed a black hole for the first time.

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Published: May 15, 2021 at 8:00 am

In 2019, astronomers revealed to the world the first ever image captured of a black hole, in galaxy M87, 55 million lightyears away.

Astronomer Heino Falcke was one of the science leads on that team, and in this episode of the Radio Astronomy podcast, he reveals how they did it.

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