M87 black hole photo a first-of-its-kind scientific milestone

Brian Pearlman, Nation & World Editor

April 15, 2019

Filed under Nation & World

It’s a revelation that has all but confirmed Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity at extremely strong gravitational scales and provided the first direct visual proof of a striking cosmological phenomenon. The April 10 announcement that scientists had created the first-ever image of a black hole — in ...