# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BwFQEn0j7v1
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11734647-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/7384a7bd26.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-04-10T16:39:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

In a historic feat by the Event Horizon Telescope and National Science Foundation (NSFgov), an image of a black hole and its shadow has been captured for the first time. Several of our missions were part of a large effort to observe the same black hole using different wavelengths of light and collect data to understand the black hole's environment. Here's a look at NASAChandraXRay Observatory's close-up of the core of the M87 galaxy and the black hole at the center of it.

Credits: NASA/CXC/Villanova University/J. Neilsen
#blackhole #EHTblackhole #galaxy #first

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ehtblackhole, first, galaxy, blackhole

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