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Event Horizon

by Matrioshka Brain

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In 2019 astronomers astonished the world by publishing something humankind had never seen before: an image of a black hole. This is a milestone not only in astrophysics but also for our perception of the Universe. It is also one of the greatest scientific advances of the decade.

This supermassive black hole is located in a distant galaxy called M87 and is an absolute monster: it measures 40 billion km across - three million times the size of the Earth - and has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun. It devours enormous amounts of matter from its surrounding space every second.

The event horizon is the point of no return after which the black hole's gravitational pull is so immense even light cannot escape. It is impossible to see beyond that ultimate boundary and we thus cannot observe what really happens there. The event horizon is almost like another fundamental boundary in the world: the boundary between life and death. That is why black hole will ultimately remain one of the greatest mysteries in the Universe.

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released August 23, 2019
Cover art: 12019 / Pixabay

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