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FIRST PHOTO OF A BLACK HOLE....AGAIN??

I recently saw an article indicating that astroscientists finally photographed a black hole.  However, I send you to my posting of a year ago with a title:    The First Photo of a Black Hole . The film mentioned above sought to photograph our black hole and another, Messier 87, located 53 million light years away, estimated to be 2.4 billion solar masses.  In other words, the light from that galaxy we see started moving in our direction 53 million years ago.  I'm giving away a big secret, but the team succeeded with this photo in April of 2019, the first and only black hole ever photographed: This is what they did to take that shot.   More than  300 scientists from 60 institutions in 20 countries  began their quest a dozen years ago.   The telescopes were located at those sites on the globe to the right.  I had only three telescopes in PAT ( Planetary Abstracting Trinterferometer, proposed to detect the first exoplanet in the mid 1970's ). What they had to do to keep this a sec