Meet one of the Canadians involved in the historic first photo of a black hole

For the first time in history, humankind can be witness to one of Einstein’s predictions: the existence of black holes.

This morning, an international scientific team announced that they were able to see and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole. The black hole is situated at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster.

The research was conducted by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, an international collaboration that began in 2012 to try to directly observe the immediate environment of a blackhole using a global network of Earth-based telescopes.

Guest: Avery Broderick

Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Waterloo, which is one of the institutions involved in this project to photograph the black hole.

For the first time in history, humankind can be witness to one of Einstein’s predictions: the existence of black holes.

This morning, an international scientific team announced that they were able to see and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole. The black hole is situated at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster.

The research was conducted by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, an international collaboration that began in 2012 to try to directly observe the immediate environment of a blackhole using a global network of Earth-based telescopes.

Guest: Avery Broderick

Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Waterloo, which is one of the institutions involved in this project to photograph the black hole.