Breakthrough discovery in astronomy: first ever image of a black hole

On 10 April 2019 at 15:00 CEST (Brussels time) the European Commission presented a groundbreaking discovery by Event Horizon Telescope an international scientific collaboration aiming to capture the first image of a black hole by creating a virtual Earthsized telescope. EUfunded researchers play a key role in the project. Black holes are extremely compressed cosmic objects, containing incredible amounts of mass within a tiny region. Their presence affects their surroundings in extreme ways, by warping