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To begin this week, scientists have just announced the first images you've probably seen the news of a black hole and with us to explain how this was done and what it means is astronomer Carolyn Crawford. So what actually they imaged caroline and where did they see this?

Well just first to stress it's not actually an image of a black hole it's the closest

we can get but you're seeing effectively the silhouette of the event horizon round

a back hold. So you're sort of more or less sitting in the shadow it casts towards us.

So that hole that you see, I mean if you look at the image. This is beautiful bright

annualis with a dark circle in the middle. That's not the black hole. That's a

shadow of the event horizon. Looks like a bit of a bagel in the sky

doesn't it? It's a long way away though isn't it? It's 55 million

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