This video by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) shows the first direct images of a supermassive black hole. The images were captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) - a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration - that was designed to capture images of a black hole. This zoom video starts with a view of ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) and zooms in on the heart of Messier 87, showing successively more detailed observations and culminating in the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow.
Top image: screenshot from the video.
[Video credit: ESO/L. Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2, ESA/Hubble, RadioAstron, De Gasperin et al., Kim et al., EHT Collaboration. Music: Niklas Falcke.]
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