First image of a black hole captured: astronomers

Sera Markoff, a member of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Science Council and a professor of the University of Amsterdam, attends a press conference held by the EHT project and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington D.C., the United States, on April 10, 2019. Astronomers said here Wednesday that they captured the first image of a black hole, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of an unseeable cosmic object and its shadow. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)