
Chinese researchers discuss the imaging methods of the image of a black hole in Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SAO), in east China's Shanghai, April 9, 2019. The image of the black hole, based on observations through the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration, was unveiled in coordinated press conferences across the globe at around 9:00 p.m. (Beijing time) on Wednesday. The landmark result offers scientists a new way to study the most extreme objects in the universe predicted by Albert Einstein's general relativity.
4月9日,在中國科學(xué)院上海天文臺,路如森研究員(右)和黃磊副研究員在討論黑洞照片的成像原理。
北京時間4月10日晚9時許,包括中國在內(nèi),全球多地天文學(xué)家同步公布首張黑洞真容。這一由200多名科研人員歷時10余年、從四大洲8個觀測點“捕獲”的視覺證據(jù),有望證實愛因斯坦廣義相對論在極端條件下仍然成立。