Cosmonautics. A black hole named Powehi (2019)

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With the help of eight observatories around the world, whose radio telescopes are synchronized by ultra-precise atomic clocks, earthlings for the first time saw an image of the most mysterious space object: a black hole.

Scientists did not doubt its existence, but they saw it for the first time.

A dark circle with an orange halo was named after the Powehi, which means "decorated dark source of endless creation" in Hawaiian.

Interview: Sergey Popov, Anatoly Cherepashchuk.

Personnel:

S.B. Popov is an astrophysicist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a leading researcher at the P.K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute. A.M. Cherepashchuk - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the P.K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute (SSAI).

Calendar: 04.19.2019

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