First image of black hole marks 『huge breakthrough for humanity』
首張黑洞圖片，標誌著「人類的巨大突破」
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，科學家們公布了迄今為止首張黑洞照片，照片顯示一個熾熱橘紅色圓環，中間為黑色，受引力扭曲的光線繞著黑洞邊緣旋轉。
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.
天文學家們整合了世界各地8臺射電望遠鏡收集的數據，捕捉到了一個超大質量黑洞的熾熱模糊邊緣。超大質量黑洞是一個多世紀前阿爾伯特•愛因斯坦(Albert Einstein提出的理論，是宇宙中吸光的怪物，幾十年來的觀測證實了這一理論。正是沿著這些邊緣，光在宇宙的哈哈鏡效應中圍繞自身彎曲。哈佛大學的Sheperd Doeleman 稱：「我們看到了原以為看不到的東西。我們已經看到並拍下了黑洞的照片。」
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.
傑西卡·登普西是夏威夷東亞天文臺)的副臺長，是黑洞項目的聯合發現者。她說，這讓她想起了《指環王》三部曲中索倫那隻強大的火眼。構建這幅照片所需的數據是由事件視界望遠鏡(Event Horizon Telescope)在2017年4月收集的。事件視界望遠鏡是一個由遍布全球的8臺射電望遠鏡組成的聯合網絡。
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，科學家們使用一個異常靈敏的觀測系統，聽到了兩個黑洞合併產生引力波時發出的聲音。這張發表在《天體物理學雜誌通訊》上、並在全球多個新聞發布會上宣布的新圖像，為這種聲音增添了光彩。登普西稱，雖然黑洞周圍的大部分區域都進入了死亡漩渦，再也看不到了，但這幅新圖像捕捉到了「倖存的氣體和塵埃」在足夠安全的距離上盤旋，並在數百萬年後在地球上也能看到。
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.
該項目耗資5000萬至6000萬美元，其中2600萬美元來自美國國家科學基金會。
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 existence 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.」
負責研究、科學和創新的歐盟委員會委員卡洛斯•莫達斯祝賀歐盟資助的研究人員在這一歷史性項目中發揮了關鍵作用，並表示：「科幻小說常常激發科學靈感，而黑洞長期以來一直在激發我們的夢想和好奇心。今天，多虧了歐洲科學家的貢獻，黑洞的存在不再只是一個理論概念。這一驚人的發現再次證明，與世界各地的合作夥伴合作可以實現匪夷所思的目標，並開闊我們的知識視野。」
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.」
歐洲研究理事會(ERC)主席讓-皮埃爾·布吉尼翁教授表示:「我向全世界的科學家表示祝賀，他們完成了這一鼓舞人心的發現，推動了我們知識的前沿。我特別高興地看到，由歐洲研究理事會資助的科學家們為這一突破做出了決定性的貢獻。」
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譯文來源：三泰虎http://www.santaihu.com/47370.html 譯者：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號之後，拉胡爾就要去那報到了。
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.
我看到很多笨蛋在評論這個重大消息時，扯上國大黨和人民黨。一群失敗者! !他們的小天地是圍繞著政黨轉的。
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
印度版的黑洞是國大黨，把貪汙的錢都存到瑞士銀行帳戶。
Anonymous - 13 hours ago
Pappu wants more evidence of the existance of blackholes.
拉胡爾要求提供更多關於黑洞存在的證據。
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...
愛因斯坦怎麼能在沒有我們拍下首張照片的情況下如此準確地預知呢?他真是個天才……
Tukaram - 14 hours ago -Follow
A great leap forward indeed to mankind in relation to Universe.
人類與宇宙的關係拉近了一大步。
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.
忘了遙遠的黑洞吧。大量的塑料被扔進海洋，讓我們把這個美麗的地球建設得更美好吧，不要破壞它。我們要快樂地生活，不要捲入戰爭。
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，對印度人來說，這太浪費新聞版面了! 這報導與宗教、種姓、地區主義或政治毫無關係。
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.
阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦無疑是最傑出的科學天才。他的理論和假設仍在通過目前的技術進行研究，並被證實是正確的。
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 helping us ordinary people to see actual pictures of the black hole. Congrats to the scientists and visionaries for making this possible...
黑洞的質量是太陽的60億倍，這簡直讓人類所知的一切都相形見絀。天文學家讓我們看到了黑洞真實的照片，向他們致敬。
Afaq Naik - 12 hours ago -Follow
First fill the holes on the road - waste of money - in universe research
先修補好路上的坑洞吧，不要把錢浪費在宇宙研究上
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
這張照片有什麼用?既不能被證實，又對我們的實際生活毫無用處。太空有無限的資源，但我們又不能離開地球!!這就是現實
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 existed there in present time...
ans size of humanity and past of human civilization is just nothing in front of it.
望遠鏡捕捉到的這張照片是5500萬年前的景象，而現在黑洞可能並不存在了。人類和人類文明在黑洞面前什麼都不是。
Indian Indian - 13 hours ago -Follow
This image is 54 millions light years ago but what is the present situation now just think....
這張照片是5400萬光年以前的，現在的情況如何呢?
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.
這一奇妙的發現證實了宇宙不可避免的毀滅終結，儘管這可能需要一萬億年的時間。但是，正如我們所知道的那樣，人類仍將為一些空洞的東西而戰，為邊界而戰，為財富和財產而戰，但沒有任何東西會永遠存在。
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，人們在這裡也發布評論政治的帖子，貶低科學家的偉大工作。
ONE LINER Challenge - 10 hours ago -Follow
THATS THE HOME FOR THE GYAN-ANDHIS
黑洞是甘地們的歸宿。
Santosh - 13 hours ago -Follow
Great job by humans.Kudos to Albert Einstein
人類的偉大成就。向愛因斯坦致敬
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.
這發現來得太遲了。我們的民族英雄拉胡爾去年已經去過那裡，並拍下了莫迪將300億盧比放入安尼爾·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 !!
宇宙中如此多的奧秘最終需要科學界數百年不間斷的研究。讓人驚訝的是，愛因斯坦竟然在沒有任何設備的情況下就做出了預測，他簡直就是科學之神!!
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 rahulif you people are such genius please do something useful to our nation in real instead of beating your drums here..
現在人們把每條新聞都和政治聯繫起來，哈哈。甚至在各條新聞的評論區，人們也在討論莫迪和拉胡爾……你們這些天才，請做一些對我們國家有用的事情吧，而不是在這裡搖旗吶喊。
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，他們唯一的興趣是政治和板球。在科學和工程方面，我們毫無興趣，看看你們的評論就知道了。
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.
這個黑洞發現得真是及時；因為在5月23日，幾位國大黨人士（比如瑪瑪塔）都要去那裡報導。
Pankaj - 12 hours ago -Follow
Send RaGa across it cos he belongs to some different dimension...lol
把拉胡爾送過去，他不屬於我們這個維度…哈哈
Sanjay - New Delhi - 4 hours ago -Follow
Nothing new.Bhaktas not only know the existence of blackholes since thousands of years but they also know how to come out of it.
沒什麼新鮮的。印度人不僅在幾千年前就知道黑洞的存在，而且知道如何從黑洞中出來。
Dhiren - 4 hours ago -Follow
Put the Italian parasite and his sycophant gang into this blackhole for ever. It will benefit India
把義大利寄生蟲和他那幫馬屁精扔進這個黑洞，這將造福印度。
Stan Smith - 2 hours ago -Follow
Bhakts will say ancient Hindu already did this 10,000 years ago
古印度人在一萬年前就已經做到了
Diksha - London - 4 hours ago -Follow
jai modi...
莫迪必勝
Asif Vahora - 10 hours ago -Follow
Yet another master stroke of modiji. Without him, this could not have happened.
莫迪的又一傑作。沒有他，這是不可能完成的。
Kick - Bengaluru - 13 hours ago -Follow
Humans want to destroy this planet and run away into other
人類想要毀滅這個星球，然後逃到另一個星球上去
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?
人類的突破?除了增加對宇宙的認識，還能給人類帶來什麼好處呢?能改善地球上數百萬忍飢挨餓之人的生活嗎?