EXTERNAL AFFAIR HIMATIKA ITS| 15 APRIL 2019 | EPS 3
FACTS ABOUT THE
FIRST EVER BLACK HOLE IMAGE RELEASE WHAT IS BLACKHOLE? Black holes are among the strangest things in the universe. They are massive objects – collections of mass – with gravity so strong that nothing can escape, not even light. The most common types of black holes are the stellar-mass and supermassive black holes. Stellar-mass black holes are created when massive stars explode, leaving behind a black hole with the mass of just a few suns.
Scientists have calculated that blackhole is
3
million times the size of the Earth
A language professor has given a Hawaiian name — Powehi — to the black hole
Prof Heino Falcke, of Radboud University in the Netherlands, who proposed the experiment, told that the black hole was found in a galaxy called M87.
The world was mesmerized this week by the first-ever image of a black hole, captured by a network of eight linked telescopes known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration.
University of Hawaii-Hilo Hawaiian Professor Larry Kimura named the cosmic object
Powehi was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, a project that connected eight telescopes around the world
"What we see is larger than the size of our entire Solar System,It has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun. And it is one of the heaviest black holes that we think exists. It is an absolute monster, the heavyweight champion of black holes in the Universe."
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47873592