While a network of telescopes across the world- the Event Horizon Telescope, has successfully completed its highly-anticipated ten-day-long observation period, only people really keen to spot the difference and science geeks will recognize that the pictures taken are not really the black hole.

In other words, we will maybe soon see a real image of a black hole but, not for at least a few months. The pictures we are currently seeing are just beautiful artist renderings and simulations.

Yes, the Event Horizon Telescope successfully collected data for the past week and a half. All of the scopes in the network recorded the radio waves emanating from the center of the galaxy, where the super-massive black hole Sagittarius A* is believed to reside. Things went well, with the exception of some bad weather here and there.

But now, the scientists must take their data back to supercomputers, line up those light sources, and run special algorithms to get the final picture. As we previously reported, this will happen later this year at the earliest, but we may need another cycle of observation before we get our first true image of a black hole.

Meanwhile, we need not worry. Whatever the telescope has seen will be truly amazing!

We have photos like a computer-generated image of what a black hole might look like, and how its gravity might distort the light around it and an artist’s depiction of how matter might be ripped and radiate energy as it orbits the black hole’s high-gravity center.

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Author: Technology Vista