First ever image of black hole unveiled

First ever image of black hole unveiled

April 10, 2019 3:26 pm MST.

An international scientific team has unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole. Melissa Duggan with the Canadian connection to the incredible feat, and how scientists came to see what they had thought was unseeable.

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