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¿Qué es un agujero negro?

Title
First black hole imate, at press release in Brussels
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EFE/ Stephanie Lecocq
Interview to
Roberto Emparan, ICREA-ICCUB
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ES
Area
Cosmology
Gravitation

The first image of a black hole has been published on wednesday by the international consortium Horizon Event Telescope (EHT).

But what exactly they are, why they fascinate both scientists and non-scientists, who spoke of them for the first time. They are explained to Efe by Roberto Emparan, physicist and researcher ICREA (Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies) of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona.

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