No one has ever seen a black hole before and it is always the product of imagination by scientists and astronomers as they try to picture one of the mysteries of the solar system. There have been studies that black holes are covered by an atmosphere of dust and gas going around it while its gravitational field will distort even the passing of light and color. With modern equipment, the collaboration of astronomical labs and accurate insights, black holes can now be studied on its influence to the galaxy.

According to reports from Phys, on April 5 to 14, 2017, a team up of telescopes will try to capture the first-ever image of a black hole called Sagittarius A* lying within the Milky Way. The Event Horizon Telescope consists of nine stations spanning the globe - some individual telescopes, others collections of telescopes - in Antarctica, Chile, Hawaii, Spain, Mexico, and Arizona. With the recent support of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile and the South Pole Telescope, these two are believed, can boost more power.

The huge effort will make the earth as if it is a big telescope focusing on these powerful energies, as reports from Concord Register, another black hole other than Sagittarius A* will be studied. Although the Event Horizon Telescopes were already studying the galaxies for decades, it needs the power of radio telescopes like Atacama Large Millimeter Array and the South Pole Telescope. Using the highest resolution, the study hopes to finally capture the true image of a black hole, changing the image created by the imagination of experts and artists.

M87 and Sagittarius A* images will answer all the questions about black holes since Jon Michell in 1783 first introduced it in a letter to the Royal Society. Then, Karl Schwarzschild, a German astrophysicist explained the occurrence of a black hole in a mathematical way in 1915, parallel to Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. Will the study prove what was believed before to be true or will it invalidate it?

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