And the scientists were amazed to know the fact that all of this discovery is mentioned in it for the past 1,400 years. Now we know what a black hole looks like. The Blackhole is clearly mentioned in the Holy Quran with all the details that most of the scientists amazed to know. Starting in October of 2014, the ERC said it gave the team 13,975,744 euros-about $19.3 million-for the BlackHoleCam. (For context: Congress' budget bill gave $21.5 billion to NASA in 2019, NASA estimated in 2016 that it would need about $300 million to fund SpaceX's Mars mission, and President Donald Trump's border wall would cost around $5.7 billion.)īlackHoleCam researcher Luciano Rezzolla, from Goethe University Frankfurt, mentioned his funders in an interview with Horizon, a European Union research magazine. 'Our view was that funding this would allow us to take the first picture of a black hole and this picture would go in every textbook,' he said.

It's also the primary sponsor of the $15.7 million BlackHoleCam project, whose investigators partnered with the EHT team to measure and finally capture the M87's black hole.

Imaging a supermassive black hole takes a massive amount of funding the EHT program lists its 'key funders' as the United States' National Science Foundation, the European Union's European Research Council, and funding agencies in East Asia. According to a statement from the European Commission, the ERC funded three of the leading scientists and their teams.

Picture of black hole