some think this might change…

Possibly THE biggest mystery in astronomy are black holes.  Some people don’t even think they exist and they might be right who knows?  And a fact that may  also not be known, at least very much so within the space fan community is that all pics of black holes to this point have been illustrations.  Here is a bit more on this:

“The largest one in the sky [is] the black hole in the center of the Milky Way,” Dimitrios Psaltis, an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona, writes me in an email. “And taking a picture of it would be equivalent to taking a picture of a DVD on the surface of the moon.”

What’s more, because of their strong gravity, black holes tend to be surrounded by other bright matter that makes it hard to see the object itself.

Are you baffled?

Let’s find out more about what some expect in the video on page 2

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