First recorded black hole

An American telescope launched in space has taken the first images of a black hole.

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) - the name of the telescope that the US launched into space on June 13 - directed cameras capable of capturing short wavelength X-rays toward a black hole and taking the first shots on June 28. Cygnis X-1, the name of the black hole, is swallowing up a nearby giant star and emitting a multitude of strong X-ray beams, Space reported.

"Today we received the first images of X-ray objects. The NuSTAR telescope's presence is like wearing new glasses and seeing many new things around , " Fiona Garrison , an expert at the California Institute of Technology in the US and the NuSTAR telescope curator, said.

The latest photos of Cygnus X-1 are much larger in definition than those taken by other telescopes. This shows that NuSTAR can help scientists discover the most mysterious objects in the universe.

In addition to the black hole, NuSTAR can also capture many other mysterious objects in the universe - like the remnants of a supernova explosion. It is designed to take photos with a light sensitivity of at least 100 times with a resolution that is at least 10 times higher than all space telescopes previously launched. Scientists hope NuSTAR's image data will help them answer the most difficult questions about black holes - such as their formation and development.

A black hole is an area in space that has a gravitational field so strong that any form of matter, including light, cannot escape its boundary. With masses of millions to billions of solar times, super-massive black holes lurk in the center of galaxies like beasts and devour celestial bodies too close to them. So many people liken black holes to ferocious and voracious hungry demons.

People and devices cannot see black holes. But matter that gets into a black hole can be heated to a temperature of a few hundred million degrees Celsius. At that terrible temperature, the object releases light beams of super-large energy - the form of matter that devices Being human can detect.