5 mind-blowing images of scientific discoveries

JUNE 9, 2025

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From the first image of a photon to the picture of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, here are some of the most fascinating science pictures of the 21st century.

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In 2021, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the image of the supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.

Second image of black hole

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This is an image of GAL-CLUS-022058s, one of the largest and most complete Einstein rings (a ring of light seen around celestial objects) in the Universe.

Einstein Ring!

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Ben Yuen and Angela Demetriadou, researchers at the University of Birmingham, captured the first picture of a photon in November 2024.

Image: Ben Yuen, Angela Demetriadou/University of Birmingham

First image of a photon

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this stunning image of the Bubble Nebula, located 800 light years away.

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Bubble Nebula

A team of researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne photographed light as both a wave and a particle in 2015.

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Image of light as a wave and a particle

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