Not necessarily the top photos of the year, nor the most heart-wrenching or emotional images, but a collection of photographs that are just so 2019. From “Old Town Road” to “Storm Area 51,” from a fast food banquet at the White House to Tesla’s Cybertruck, from virtual reality for dairy cows to “30-50 feral hogs,” and much more. This is 2019.
The zero here is actually the first image ever made of a black hole, released earlier this year. The Event Horizon Telescope imaged a black hole at the center of galaxy M87, outlined by emissions from hot gas swirling around it, in a picture released on April 10, 2019. To make the image, the EHT, a network of eight radio observatories on six mountains and four continents, observed the black hole in Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo, on and off for 10 days in April of 2017.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/12/the-most-2019-photos-ever/603700/
