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		hashfunktion on April 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [vi... Pardon my naïveté, I never took advance physics, but if light can't escape from a blackhole, then how can we "take a picture" of one?

ValleyOfTheMtns on April 11, 2019 | [–]

It's a photo of the absence of light (in the middle) and light/particles swirling around the black hole that haven't passed the event horizon (yet).

ceejayoz on April 11, 2019 | [–]

Same way we can take a picture of a shadow - by taking a picture of the stuff surrounding it. This black hole is surrounded by a bright accretion disk.

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