{"id":89189,"date":"2019-04-03T13:23:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/something-no-human-has-seen-before-the-first-ever-photograph-of-a-black-hole-will-likely-be-unveiled-next-week"},"modified":"2019-04-03T13:23:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:23:34","slug":"something-no-human-has-seen-before-the-first-ever-photograph-of-a-black-hole-will-likely-be-unveiled-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/something-no-human-has-seen-before-the-first-ever-photograph-of-a-black-hole-will-likely-be-unveiled-next-week","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Something no human has seen before\u2019: The first-ever photograph of a black hole will likely be unveiled next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/something-no-human-has-seen-before-the-first-ever-photograph-of-a-black-hole-will-likely-be-unveiled-next-week3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve captured our imaginations for decades, but we\u2019ve never actually photographed a black hole before \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n<p>Next Wednesday, at several press briefings around the world, scientists will apparently unveil humanity\u2019s first-ever photo of a black hole, the European Space Agency said in a <a data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/announcements\/ann19018\/?lang\">statement<\/a>. Specifically, the photo will be of \u201cSagittarius A,\u201d the supermassive black hole that\u2019s at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>But aren\u2019t black holes, well, black, and thus invisible, so none of our telescopes can \u201csee\u201d them? Yes \u2013 therefore the image we\u2019re likely to see will be of the \u201cevent horizon,\u201d the edge of the black hole where light can\u2019t escape.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2019\/04\/02\/black-holes-first-ever-photo-should-unveiled-next-week\/3343250002\/\">https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2019\/04\/02\/black-...343250002\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019ve captured our imaginations for decades, but we\u2019ve never actually photographed a black hole before \u2013 until now. Next Wednesday, at several press briefings around the world, scientists will apparently unveil humanity\u2019s first-ever photo of a black hole, the European Space Agency said in a statement. Specifically, the photo will be of \u201cSagittarius A,\u201d the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}