The First Image of a Black Hole! What Now?

On Wednesday, April 10th, the first image of the black hole was revealed to the public in a press conference. This black hole is 55 million light-years away in the center of the galaxy Messier 87. It took 8 telescopes across 5 continents to make up this experiment that capture this image.

There was a total of 5 petabytes of data recorded. That amount of data alone is more than 5 million Harding M drives. No amount of internet could handle this amount of data, so airplanes would be flown to data centers to have the data cleaned and analyzed. All of this data had to be aligned and correlated in order to create this image alone. This is the first time that we have ever actually seen a black hole. It may seem blurry but here is a video showing the orientation of this black hole.

But where do we go from here? What more can we learn?

First off, we can again prove Einstein's theory of relativity with an actual black hole rather than simulations.  Astronomers can now correctly estimate the mass of black holes. Not only this, but now scientists know the process, they know they can do it, but it also confirms the predictions previously set.

Astronomy now can take a huge leap in discovering of what God placed in this universe for us to find. This is just a small portion of what we can find out there.