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Black holes: seeing 'the unseeable' – Science Weekly podcast


Black holes have long featured in science fiction movies as dark swirling objects that swallow anything that dares to cross its threshold, so it’s easy to forget that we’ve never actually seen one before. That was until earlier this month when the Event Horizon telescope produced an image of a black hole’s outline surrounded by dust and gas.

Hannah Devlin speaks to Dr Matt Middleton from the University of Southampton about decades of research that led to the achievement and to one of the scientists, Dr Ziri Younsi from UCL, who helped create the image, about why it’s more than just a pretty picture.

This false-color image released Wednesday, April 10, 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope shows a black hole at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy. Scientists revealed the first image ever made of the mysterious stellar phenomenon after assembling data gathered by a network of radio telescopes around the Earth. It is located about 53 million light years away. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/Maunakea Observatories via AP)



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