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The German presented the first image of a black hole in 2019. It reveals what makes mysterious things so alluring and what this has to do with God.
Polarized view of the black hole in M87. The lines indicate the direction of polarization associated with the magnetic field around the black hole’s shadow.
It was a front-page sensation around the world: on April 10, 2019, an image showing the shadow of a black hole was shown for the first time. This made one of the universe’s most mysterious objects visible. The image was the product of a ten-year project in which 300 researchers worked together. Development leadership Event horizon telescopeThe one who, after the black hole in the center of the galaxy M87, also recorded Sagittarius A* in the center of the Milky Way, was the German astronomer Heino Falke. For his research he received an award Balzan Prize In the amount of 750,000 Swiss francs (currently about 790,000 euros).
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