amazing technology how complicated a process has it been to pull this data together of course we're not talking about a photo being taken this is a very complicated process right and what you just mentioned is really important it's not a photo it's an image so it's made up it's calculated by the data they gathered and it's not showing the actual black hole as a black hole is by definition invisible you can't see it it's just starred and there's nothing to see so what we actually see on the photo is the dust and the gases which us were doing swirling around the black hole which is called the event horizon. when which is the point of no return and yet together all those data is quite is really a big project just imagine they gathered so many data that they can transfer them via the internet they needed to store them on hard disks and slip them to the super