The black hole has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the sun.
"When you work in this field for a long time you get a lot of intermediate results," Doeleman said Wednesday when asked what he felt when he first saw the image."We saw something so true...
it was astonishment and wonder and I think any scientist in any field will know that feeling, to see something for the first time."in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.Contact Mary Ann Georgantopoulos at
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