By Jim Shelton
April 14, 2021
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Mislav Baloković, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, has a prime viewing spot for the most famous black hole humans have ever seen.
That would be the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87, located 55 million light years from Earth.
Two years ago, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC) a global collaboration of astrophysicists and observatories that created a virtual, Earth-sized telescope, released an image of M87. It was the first photograph of a black hole and a technical achievement lauded by scientists around the world.
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