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The Event Horizon Telescope- the telescope that can can see beyond your imagination - Mystery of Galaxy

               The Event Horizon Telescope On April 10th 2019, the very first image of a black hole will be released to the public and we're gonna preview it and understand this remarkable scientific achievement. Welcome back to my blog "Mystery of Galaxy" . Chances are by now you've already seen the very first image of a black hole.  First image of M87 blackhole Source: Event Horizon Telescope / CC BY Anyway let's take a quick look at how black holes have been depicted traditionally. When we think about black hole images, they're usually surrounded by a disk of gas and dust that is circling at very high speed. Some of its falling into the black hole, some of it being accelerated out in bipolar jets .  Jets of black holes Source: ESA/Hubble / CC BY Now these illustrations are very useful for understanding the geometry of the black hole and its accretion disk . However, if we were to look upon black hole and its accretion disk...