The world\'s first image of a black hole was created using data from eight radio telescopes.
Hilo (US): A language professor has given a Hawaiian name Powehi to the black hole depicted in an image produced in a landmark experiment.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported on Thursday that University of Hawaii-Hilo Hawaiian Professor Larry Kimura named the cosmic object.
The world's first image of a black hole was created using data from eight radio telescopes.
The newspaper reports the word meaning “the adorned fathomless dark creation” or “embellished dark source of unending creation” comes from Kumulipo, an 18th Century Hawaiian creation chant. Astronomers say giving it a Hawaiian name was justified because the project included two telescopes in Hawaii.
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