7 Biggest Space Discoveries of The Last Decade

Black Hole

The world was captivated when the first ever image of a black hole was released – a supermassive one located at the centre of the Messier 87 galaxy, 55 million light-years away. Scientists used a network of eight radio telescopes around the world to capture the image. Data from the telescopes was combined to create a virtual telescope as wide as the Earth itself. This technique, known as Very Long Baseline Interferometry, allowed scientists to observe the black hole’s ‘shadow’. The data was then processed using algorithms to produce the image we now see.