supermassive black hole directly they inferred its existence from the stars orbiting around the black hole and from hot matter surrounding it this first ever has only been possible through the event horizon telescope a global network of radio telescopes gathering data from all around the world. are coordinated with atomic clocks to synchronize and all that data is combined after the fact into what s called a correlator and that correlate or ultimately produces data that can be constructed into an image. astronomers want to explore how matter can disappear from our world for ever and to take a deeper look into einstein s theory of relativity and its initial theory on black holes. and we heard there in that report about a network of radio telescopes across the world tell me more about the teamwork the
super computer so it s a really big scientific project and they made a big step today ok so looking at bigger picture how much closer to this does this get us to sort of us understanding of life and the universe it definitely is a big step i mean einstein s theory of relativity is at the basis of many scientific theories about the universe and about our world and now this is one proof that can show how those theories work or if they are actually true. and yeah it really gets as close and i think now scientists and i will dream about . this beautiful image and drink some champagne as well. as science reporter liao by thanks so much for joining us. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu appears to have secured victory in his country s parliament tree election
a black hole at the center. and that s also one that this array of telescopes will or is a cup serving at the moment so it s actually quite it s at the center of our universe or of many. many elements in our universe which are the galaxies and it s also about basic theories about our world in general for example einstein s theory of relativity to vittie which is now maybe to be proven and yet it s quite big for basic signs about understanding of our world amazing amazing stuff they are trying to do science desk thank you so much for laying it all out for us like shit thank you. and our want to bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. new zealand s parliament has voted to ban military style weapons in the wake of last month s deadly mass shootings a prime minister just an ardent in an emotional speech backing the measure people
what makes a great leader and how do they get to become great leaders? those are the questions pondered by general mcchrystal who authored leaders. here s what i thinking as i was reading the book. i m going to put up on the screen those 13 leaders, the personalities that you profiled. what i wondered is could they switch jobs? i get that martin luther mouth not understand einstein s theory of relativity but is the skillset transferable to different areas of responsibility? i would say the short antser on our research is no. leadership is extraordinarily contextual. of the skills of the leader.
and europe in general to stand up to a bully and i think that if she doesn t do that it s going to weaken nato and to some extent i think that is by the way something that the united states should do immediately but we don t have time it seems to me to waste on whether or not we do with this or not this is a this is a major attack on an alliance. right that s a big open question and i think we re going to see how that plays out in the next couple of days jack chain s with the american institute for contemporary german studies we appreciate you coming in and it s good to see you have you back on the show thank you very much. the renowned british physicist stephen hawking has died at the age of seventy six his family says that he passed away peacefully in his sleep in the early hours of wednesday now hawking will be remembered for his groundbreaking work on black holes linked to einstein s theory of relativity he also worked on