今天，事件视界望远镜（EHT）正式公布了他们的发现：一张黑洞的真正照片。这也是首个黑洞存在的直接视觉证据。
EHT公布的最终照片
EHT（Event Horizon Telescope）是一个巨大的观测阵列，由全世界不同的地面射电望远镜组成，形成巨大的“虚拟望远镜”，并通过多次独立观测确定了星空中的一个环状结构及中间的黑暗区域是一个黑洞。
于是，这就是人类文明第一次确定地看到了这个被爱因斯坦预言的极端天体，天文与物理学的发展又进了一步。
附上整个EHT项目的相关机构列表，让我们感谢并铭记他们的贡献：
- Aalto University
- Brandeis University
- Boston University
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- California Institute of Technology
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
- Center for Astronomical Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Centro Astronómico de Yebes, Instituto Geográfico Nacional
- Chalmers University of Technology, Onsala Space Observatory, Department of Space, Earth and Environment
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
- Cornell University, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science
- Google Research
- Hiroshima University, Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Physics
- Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
- Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica
- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica -- Istituto di Radioastronomia, Italian ALMA Regional Centre
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli
- Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE)
- Key Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Key Laboratory for Research in Galaxies and Cosmology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Key Laboratory for the Structure and Evolution of Celestial Objects, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Key Laboratory of Radio Astron., Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Kogakuin University of Technology Engineering
- Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
- Leiden University, Allegro / Leiden Observatory
- Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
- Nanjing University, Key Laboratory of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics / School of Astronomy and Space Science
- National Optical Astronomical Observatory
- National Radio Astronomical Observatory
- National Sun Yat-Sen University, Physics Depatment
- National Taiwan University, Department of Physics
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
- Nederlandse Onderzoekschool voor Astronomie
- Peking University, Department of Astronomy, School of Physics / Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Rhodes University, Centre for Radio Astronomy Techniques and Technologies, Department of Physics and Electronics
- Seoul National University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Tohoku University, Astronomy Institute / Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences
- The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Department of Statistical Science / Department of Astronomical Science
- The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
- The University of Tokyo, Department of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science / Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
- Universidad de Concepción, Astronomy Department
- Universitat de València (Departament d'Astronomia i Astrofísica / Observatori Astronòmic)
- University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory
- University of Amsterdam, Anton Pannekoek Institute & GRAPPA
- University of California Berkeley, Radio Astronomy Laboratory
- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics
- University of Illinois, Department of Astronomy / Department of Physics
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Astronomy
- University of Pretoria, Department of Physics
- University of St. Petersburg, Astronomy Institute
- University of Science and Technology
- University of Science and Technology of China, Astronomy Department
- University of Toronto, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
- University of Waterloo, Waterloo Center for Astrophysics / Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Yonsei University, Department of Astronomy
- Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences