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This morning, astronomers released the first-ever photograph of a black hole. The capturing of the image was the result of a massive international collaborative effort involving 200 astronomers and nine telescopes. All of these minds and machines came together to create the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an international consortium that linked eight radio observatories around the world. The black hole that was captured on camera comes from Messier 87, or…