The enduring first picture of a black gap, launched in 2019, may by no means have occurred if not for a stroke of luck, based on one of many astronomers who helped create the picture.
Talking at New Scientist Live in London, Luciano Rezzolla at Goethe College Frankfurt, Germany, who’s on the chief committee of the Occasion Horizon Telescope (EHT) that created the picture, revealed that the researchers didn’t know if their efforts would repay till after …