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2:10:36>> 2019 first direct image of a black hole shadow. I remember this one breaking. >> Yeah, this one was great. The memes were great >> from this. Um, this was the event horizon telescope led by Americans um at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. They captured the first direct image of a super massive black hole shadow in the galaxy M87. They subsequently also captured the super massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way. I mean, this is insane. It's a network of telescopes across the globe to resolve a single black hole that's the size of about the solar system billions of light years away. Um

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