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Scientists captured and released the first-ever picture of a black hole. WIRED’s Deputy Science Editor Adam Rogers spoke with Harvard’s Michael Johnson and Andrew Chael, two of the members of the research team, to find out what the achievement means for science. ►► Also, check out the free WIRED channel on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon…

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Scientists captured and released the first-ever picture of a black hole. WIRED’s Deputy Science Editor Adam Rogers spoke with Harvard’s Michael Johnson and Andrew Chael, two of the members of the research team, to find out what the achievement means for science.

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  1. fatarsemonkey

    April 17, 2019 at 2:23 am

  2. Felix Du

    April 17, 2019 at 5:49 am

    Stephen Hawkings prediction was real!!

  3. Lord Hipster

    April 17, 2019 at 7:40 am

    Imagine being a black hole millions of light years away and being caught on camera and become an instant meme

  4. Asspargass S

    April 17, 2019 at 11:42 am

    Apparently everyone in the comment section has been in space and definitely knows more then actual scientists

  5. Jeff

    April 17, 2019 at 7:09 pm

    Finally Katy bouman doesn’t get the credit

  6. yaboialex wassup

    April 17, 2019 at 8:30 pm

    I hope that doesn’t come on over to our galaxy

  7. TheASMR Kid

    April 17, 2019 at 8:51 pm

    Since that black hole is 55 million light years away it took 55 million years for that black holes waves to get to earth which is a long time!!!!!!

  8. Maxwell Luong

    April 17, 2019 at 9:22 pm

    Felix was obviously in charge if this whole operation.

  9. Kit Sundström

    April 17, 2019 at 10:03 pm

    So its not a picture of a black hole, only the light surrounding it? Am I understanding right???

    • Alex Siemers

      April 22, 2019 at 7:11 pm

      Its the accretion disk, which emits light that gets distorted by the black hole’s gravity.

  10. Bearded Elvis

    April 17, 2019 at 10:38 pm

    Scientists gonna keep trying and coming up with new stuff and one day you will hear some other stories that’s gonna shine you how how is that possible we knew all our life this and now it’s not …. and the end it all come to the Big Creator GOD ? no one knows the universe and you will never !!

  11. Justin Cullop

    April 17, 2019 at 11:05 pm

    Someone probably made the photo on Microsoft paint and now the world believes it

    • ct92404

      April 20, 2019 at 10:38 am

      Yeah, right…so we’re not supposed to believe astonomers and physicists, but somehow we are supposed to believe some random dumbass conspiracy theorist on the internet.

  12. Zach Attack

    April 17, 2019 at 11:42 pm

    #Yeet

  13. cool kid

    April 17, 2019 at 11:48 pm

    Here we go again with flat earthers…

  14. Demetra Smith

    April 18, 2019 at 1:04 am

    Looks like a blunt cherry to me

    Stay high

  15. Corbin Malott

    April 18, 2019 at 1:08 am

    Why do we not have a picture of the black hole at the center of our galaxy?

    • Alex Siemers

      April 22, 2019 at 7:10 pm

      Not as active nor as massive as M87

  16. MrMagooo

    April 18, 2019 at 1:48 am

    The real black hole at the center of the universe is…the US Defense budget

  17. Bryan Sperry

    April 18, 2019 at 3:22 am

    That’s CGI just like every image of NASA..

  18. Skeleton Style

    April 18, 2019 at 12:48 pm

    The camera quality is doo doo

  19. Eleet Tabboo

    April 18, 2019 at 3:19 pm

    Dude it looks like Sauron’s eye or something

  20. Head Hancho

    April 18, 2019 at 4:05 pm

    Light is projecting our reality

  21. Kernos The Frog

    April 18, 2019 at 10:19 pm

    It would’ve been more awesome if nasa released a camera into space and put it inside the black hole to see what happens to the camera inside the black hole

    • ct92404

      April 20, 2019 at 10:45 am

      The black hole is 55 million light-years away. That means even if you could travel at the speed of light, it would take *55 million years* to get there. How the heck are they going to send a camera that far away?

    • Kernos The Frog

      April 21, 2019 at 4:09 pm

      +ct92404 oh yeah..

  22. Ernie Knuckles

    April 19, 2019 at 12:59 am

    Imagine this. What if this image isn’t really a black hole?

  23. JORDAN DARNELL

    April 19, 2019 at 11:10 pm

    Fake

  24. Black Science Man

    April 20, 2019 at 6:11 pm

    AMAZING

  25. THEORYCHILE

    April 20, 2019 at 11:19 pm

    uhmm…. mmm… amm… yeaahhh… uhmm.. what.. what… what…. uhm…

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