An Ontario astrophysicist who helped create the first-ever image of a black hole says he was 'a little stunned' by the discovery.
He may have expected the results, but that didn’t leave him any less astonished by what he found.
But when Broderick first saw the image he and other researchers affiliated with the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration had compiled based on data from eight telescopes, he was awestruck. Broderick was one of five experts to speak at a press conference in Washington, D.C., revealing the photo to the public for the first time. He is an astrophysicist at the Ontario-based Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, which is one of the 13 organizations behind the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, and the University of Waterloo.
Feeling a tug from the black hole’s strong gravitational field doesn’t automatically mean the photons will disappear into the black hole, Broderick explained. If the photons manage to move past the black hole without crossing its “event horizon” – the point past which nothing can escape – they will be able to continue their journey through the galaxy.
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