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What Are The Black Holes?

 What Are The Black Holes? Black holes are among the strangest and most attractive in outer space. It is so dense, with so many strong structures that no light can tell if it gets close enough. Albert Einstein first predicted the Black Forest in 1916, with his theory of relativity. American astronomer John Wheeler coined the term "not found" several years after 1967. After decades of knowing black holes only by theoretical devices, the first black holes were discovered in 1971. Then, in 2019, the first recorded image of a black hole was released in association with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The EHT site detected a black hole in the middle of Galaxy M87 while the telescope surveyed the event horizon, or the past of an area where no one could escape from the black hole. The image shows a map of the sudden loss of photons (particles of light). It also opened up a whole new field of research into black holes, and now astronomers know what a black hole looks like. So far,