First image of black hole marks ‘huge breakthrough for humanity’

首张黑洞图片，标志着“人类的巨大突破”

Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, depicting a fiery orange and black ring of gravity-twisted light swirling around the edges of the abyss.

周三，科学家们公布了迄今为止首张黑洞照片，照片显示一个炽热橘红色圆环，中间为黑色，受引力扭曲的光线绕着黑洞边缘旋转。

Assembling data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers captured a picture of the hot, shadowy edges of a supermassive black hole, the light-sucking monsters of the universe theorised by Albert Einstein more than a century ago and confirmed by observations for decades. It is along those edges that light bends around itself in a cosmic funhouse effect. “We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole. Here it is,” said Sheperd Doeleman of Harvard.

天文学家们整合了世界各地8台射电望远镜收集的数据，捕捉到了一个超大质量黑洞的炽热模糊边缘。超大质量黑洞是一个多世纪前阿尔伯特•爱因斯坦(Albert Einstein提出的理论，是宇宙中吸光的怪物，几十年来的观测证实了这一理论。正是沿着这些边缘，光在宇宙的哈哈镜效应中围绕自身弯曲。哈佛大学的Sheperd Doeleman 称：“我们看到了原以为看不到的东西。我们已经看到并拍下了黑洞的照片。”

Jessica Dempsey, a co-discoverer and deputy director of the East Asian Observatory in Hawaii, said it reminded her of the powerful flaming Eye of Sauron from the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Data needed to construct the picture was gathered in April 2017 by the Event Horizon Telescope, a joined-up network of eight radio telescopes spread across the globe.

杰西卡·登普西是夏威夷东亚天文台)的副台长，是黑洞项目的联合发现者。她说，这让她想起了《指环王》三部曲中索伦那只强大的火眼。构建这幅照片所需的数据是由事件视界望远镜(Event Horizon Telescope)在2017年4月收集的。事件视界望远镜是一个由遍布全球的8台射电望远镜组成的联合网络。

Three years ago, scientists using an extraordinarily sensitive observing system heard the sound of two much smaller black holes merging to create a gravitational wave. The new image, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters and announced around the world in several news conferences, adds light to that sound. While much around a black hole falls into a death spiral and is never to be seen again, the new image captures “lucky gas and dust” circling at just far enough to be safe and seen millions of years later on Earth, Dempsey said.

三年前，科学家们使用一个异常灵敏的观测系统，听到了两个黑洞合并产生引力波时发出的声音。这张发表在《天体物理学杂志通讯》上、并在全球多个新闻发布会上宣布的新图像，为这种声音增添了光彩。登普西称，虽然黑洞周围的大部分区域都进入了死亡漩涡，再也看不到了，但这幅新图像捕捉到了“幸存的气体和尘埃”在足够安全的距离上盘旋，并在数百万年后在地球上也能看到。

That's because that light is approaching Earth. The project cost $50 million to $60 million, with $26 million of that coming from the National Science Foundation.

该项目耗资5000万至6000万美元，其中2600万美元来自美国国家科学基金会。

Congratulating EU-funded researchers, who played a key role in the historic project, European Commissioner Carlos Moedas, responsible for research, science and innovation, said: “Fiction often inspires science, and black holes have long fuelled our dreams and curiosity. Today, thanks to the contribution of European scientists, the exstence of black holes is no longer just a theoretical concept. This amazing discovery proves again how working together with partners around the world can lead to achieving the unthinkable and moving the horizons of our knowledge.”

负责研究、科学和创新的欧盟委员会委员卡洛斯•莫达斯祝贺欧盟资助的研究人员在这一历史性项目中发挥了关键作用，并表示：“科幻小说常常激发科学灵感，而黑洞长期以来一直在激发我们的梦想和好奇心。今天，多亏了欧洲科学家的贡献，黑洞的存在不再只是一个理论概念。这一惊人的发现再次证明，与世界各地的合作伙伴合作可以实现匪夷所思的目标，并开阔我们的知识视野。”

President of the European Research Council (ERC), professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, said, “I congratulate scientists across the globe who made this inspiring discovery and pushed the frontiers of our knowledge. I’m especially glad to see that scientists funded by the European Research Council contributed decisively to this breakthrough.”

欧洲研究理事会(ERC)主席让-皮埃尔·布吉尼翁教授表示:“我向全世界的科学家表示祝贺，他们完成了这一鼓舞人心的发现，推动了我们知识的前沿。我特别高兴地看到，由欧洲研究理事会资助的科学家们为这一突破做出了决定性的贡献。”

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译文来源：三泰虎http://www.santaihu.com/47370.html   译者：Jessica.Wu

外文：https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/first-image-of-black-hole-marks-huge-breakthrough-for-humanity/articleshow/68819619.cms

Lullauddin - ahmedabad - 14 hours ago -Follow

Pappu and Co will go there after 23 may

5月23号之后，拉胡尔就要去那报到了。

Judge Dread - 13 hours ago -Follow

I see a bunch of mor*ns commenting on this great news related to the Congress and the BJP. What losers !! Their small world revolves around political parties irrespective of the news.

我看到很多笨蛋在评论这个重大消息时，扯上国大党和人民党。一群失败者! !他们的小天地是围绕着政党转的。

MrBoobs - Right Here - 13 hours ago -Follow

The Indian version of black holes is Congress where huge sun''s of Indian corruption money is amassed in atiny space called Swiss accounts

印度版的黑洞是国大党，把贪污的钱都存到瑞士银行帐户。

Anonymous - 13 hours ago

Pappu wants more evidence of the exstance of blackholes.

拉胡尔要求提供更多关于黑洞存在的证据。

Rajesh - 13 hours ago -Follow

how did Einstein was able to tell us so accurately without the picture which we captured for the first time...!! what genius he was...

爱因斯坦怎么能在没有我们拍下首张照片的情况下如此准确地预知呢?他真是个天才……

Tukaram - 14 hours ago -Follow

A great leap forward indeed to mankind in relation to Universe.

人类与宇宙的关系拉近了一大步。

Rafael Federer - 12 hours ago -Follow

Forget about black holes which are billions of kilometers away, let''s make this beautiful planet of Earth much better and not spoil it. There''s huge amount of plastic being thrown into oceans and let''s live all happily rather than involving in wars.

忘了遥远的黑洞吧。大量的塑料被扔进海洋，让我们把这个美丽的地球建设得更美好吧，不要破坏它。我们要快乐地生活，不要卷入战争。

Fossil By Then - 5 hours ago -Follow

OMG! What a waste of news for Indians! It''s got nothing to do with religion, caste, regionalism or politics..

天啊，对印度人来说，这太浪费新闻版面了! 这报道与宗教、种姓、地区主义或政治毫无关系。

Vaibhav - New Delhi - 13 hours ago -Follow

Albert Einstein is surely the most brilliant scientific brain mankind has ever produced. His theories and postulates are still being investigated through current technology and are being found correct.

阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦无疑是最杰出的科学天才。他的理论和假设仍在通过目前的技术进行研究，并被证实是正确的。

Orchid - Chennai, India - 5 hours ago -Follow

To think that the black alone has a mass over 600 crore times that of our sun, simply dwarfs every thing known to man. Hats off to the astronomers for hel us ordinary people to see actual pictures of the black hole. Congrats to the scientists and visionaries for making this possible...

黑洞的质量是太阳的60亿倍，这简直让人类所知的一切都相形见绌。天文学家让我们看到了黑洞真实的照片，向他们致敬。

Afaq Naik - 12 hours ago -Follow

First fill the holes on the road - waste of money - in universe research

先修补好路上的坑洞吧，不要把钱浪费在宇宙研究上

Amar - 14 hours ago -Follow

What is the use of this picture which can never be verified by anyone nor useful for any of our practical lives....keep looking at space...there are unlimited stuff there but we can''t leave the earth!!! Reality

这张照片有什么用?既不能被证实，又对我们的实际生活毫无用处。太空有无限的资源，但我们又不能离开地球!!这就是现实

Chandrashekhar - nepal - 5 hours ago -Follow

telescope is capturing the image which happend in past 55 million years and the black hole may be not exsted there in present time...

ans size of humanity and past of human civilization is just nothing in front of it.

望远镜捕捉到的这张照片是5500万年前的景象，而现在黑洞可能并不存在了。人类和人类文明在黑洞面前什么都不是。

Indian Indian - 13 hours ago -Follow

This image is 54 millions light years ago but what is the present situation now just think....

这张照片是5400万光年以前的，现在的情况如何呢?

Kavitha - 4 hours ago -Follow

this fantastic discovery just confirm the inevitable destructive end of our universe,eventhough it may take a trillion trillion years.but still mankind as we know will fight for inane things ,fighting over borders,fighting over wealth and property when its a forgone conclusion that nothing will remain forever in the times to come.

这一奇妙的发现证实了宇宙不可避免的毁灭终结，尽管这可能需要一万亿年的时间。但是，正如我们所知道的那样，人类仍将为一些空洞的东西而战，为边界而战，为财富和财产而战，但没有任何东西会永远存在。

Sudarshan - Indore - 7 hours ago -Follow

It is pathetic that people are commenting about political posts here also and belittling the great work of scientists.

可悲的是，人们在这里也发布评论政治的帖子，贬低科学家的伟大工作。

ONE LINER Challenge - 10 hours ago -Follow

THATS THE HOME FOR THE GYAN-ANDHIS

黑洞是甘地们的归宿。

Santosh - 13 hours ago -Follow

Great job by humans.Kudos to Albert Einstein

人类的伟大成就。向爱因斯坦致敬

sunil mishra - renusagar - 14 hours ago -Follow

It discovered too late. Our national Hero Mr Pappu already have gone there last year and taken photograph Of modiji putting Rs 3000cr in Anil ambani pocket.

这发现来得太迟了。我们的民族英雄拉胡尔去年已经去过那里，并拍下了莫迪将300亿卢比放入安尼尔·安巴尼口袋的照片。

Hi Sudip - 14 hours ago -Follow

So many mysteries in this universe eventually take hundreds of years of non-stop research by scientific community. Surprised how Einstein predicted without any equipment that time, he was just the GOD of science !!

宇宙中如此多的奥秘最终需要科学界数百年不间断的研究。让人惊讶的是，爱因斯坦竟然在没有任何设备的情况下就做出了预测，他简直就是科学之神!!

Sadha Nanda - Bangalore - 2 hours ago -Follow

Nowadays people relating every news with politics lol..even in this section people are debating about modi and rahul.....if you people are such genius please do something useful to our nation in real instead of beating your drums here..

现在人们把每条新闻都和政治联系起来，哈哈。甚至在各条新闻的评论区，人们也在讨论莫迪和拉胡尔……你们这些天才，请做一些对我们国家有用的事情吧，而不是在这里摇旗呐喊。

Vikas - 4 hours ago -Follow

Indians are real fool. Their only interests are politics and Cricket. On Science and Engineering we are ZERO and this is quite evident looking at your comments.

印度人真是傻子，他们唯一的兴趣是政治和板球。在科学和工程方面，我们毫无兴趣，看看你们的评论就知道了。

Chokidar - 6 hours ago -Follow

This Hole is discovered at most appropriate time as on 23rd May several like Congress Maya Mamta Lalu family have to go there.

这个黑洞发现得真是及时；因为在5月23日，几位国大党人士（比如玛玛塔）都要去那里报道。

Pankaj - 12 hours ago -Follow

Send RaGa across it cos he belongs to some different dimension...lol

把拉胡尔送过去，他不属于我们这个维度…哈哈

Sanjay - New Delhi - 4 hours ago -Follow

Nothing new.Bhaktas not only know the exstence of blackholes since thousands of years but they also know how to come out of it.

没什么新鲜的。印度人不仅在几千年前就知道黑洞的存在，而且知道如何从黑洞中出来。

Dhiren - 4 hours ago -Follow

Put the Italian parasite and his sycophant gang into this blackhole for ever. It will benefit India

把意大利寄生虫和他那帮马屁精扔进这个黑洞，这将造福印度。

Stan Smith - 2 hours ago -Follow

Bhakts will say ancient Hindu already did this 10,000 years ago

古印度人在一万年前就已经做到了

Diksha - London - 4 hours ago -Follow

jai modi...

莫迪必胜

Asif Vahora - 10 hours ago -Follow

Yet another master stroke of modiji. Without him, this could not have happened.

莫迪的又一杰作。没有他，这是不可能完成的。

Kick - Bengaluru - 13 hours ago -Follow

Humans want to destroy this planet and run away into other

人类想要毁灭这个星球，然后逃到另一个星球上去

Gopalakrishnan - 14 hours ago -Follow

Breakthrough for humanity? What benefit is it going to bring to humanity except increasing your knowledge about the universe? Will it better the life of the starving millions on earth?

人类的突破?除了增加对宇宙的认识，还能给人类带来什么好处呢?能改善地球上数百万忍饥挨饿之人的生活吗?