$19 Million Grant Could Lead to First-Ever Image of Black Hole

$19 Million Grant Could Lead to First-Ever Image of Black Hole

A team of European astrophysicists plans to capture the world's first image of a black hole, and a newly awarded grant may help that dream come true.

The European Research Council has given 14 million euros ($ 19.3 million) to the team behind BlackHoleCam. This project aims to peer at the supermassive black hole at the core of our Milky Way galaxy and image its event horizon — the theorized boundary beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape.

"While most astrophysicists believe black holes exist, nobody has actually ever seen one," Heino Falcke of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, one of BlackHoleCam's three principal investigators, said in a statement Tuesday Read more...

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