InSight Lander Detects Mars Quakes

On April 23rd 2019, NASA announced that its InSight lander has detected the first seismic activity on Mars, which they are calling a, "Marsquake." The seismic event was recorded on April 6th using its SEIS or Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure instrument. Researchers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California say that the, "Marsquake," was equal to a 2.5 quake here on Earth. Since Mars is believed to have no plate tectonics, the origin of the quake is yet to be determined.

First Photo Of A Black Hole

On April 10th 2019, astronomers at the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, announced that they had taken the first ever picture of a black hole. A black hole is an area of space created by the collapse of a dying star. Albert Einstein theorized that the result of such an event would create an object so massive that its gravity would prevent light from escaping. The photo taken by the EHT was the product of eight radio telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, Chile, Mexico, Antarctica, and Spain.