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The first photo of a black hole used an Earth-sized telescope
In 2019 eight radio observatories across the planet were linked into one virtual dish the width of Earth. It imaged M87*, a black hole 55 million light years away.
Space
Time itself slows down near a black hole
Gravity stretches time. Watch someone fall toward the event horizon and they appear to slow, redden and freeze forever — while for them, the fall takes only moments.
Space
Black holes slowly evaporate
Stephen Hawking showed black holes leak faint radiation and shrink. A stellar-mass one would take about 10^67 years to vanish — far longer than the universe has existed.