In The Speed Of Light
by Noaman Dadghir

If you ever want to look into the past, just go outside at night and look up, focus on a star far away, the star you are looking at is probably thousands of light years away, what’s a light year you may ask? A light year is a measurement of speed, time and distance, the speed of light is approximately 300,000 km per second (186411.358 miles per second) a light year is traveling in the speed of light for a period of a year.

So that star light you’re actually looking at is from thousands of years ago, it may not even be there anymore it could’ve exploded hundreds of years ago but you can still see it in it’s prime and glory.

And on Wednesday April 19th 2019 the entire world witnessed this at first hand as we received this first ever captured image of a black hole, the super massive black hole is located at the center of  Messier 87 (aka. Virgo A), a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation, the messier 87 galaxy resides just about 54 million light years away from earth so when I first received news of the picture that captured the first ever black hole I was more amazed about the fact that what we are looking at is an image for the past 54 million years ago exactly it is literally like opening a magical portal into the past where you can see major galactic events take place, but it only makes me wonder if we can do the same when it comes to the future as science evolves every day my hope grows for new scientific discoveries that will push the human race one step closer to achieving the speed of light which according  Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity that achieving the speed of light might help us travel through time, however the problem that stands in our way so far  is that matter cannot achieve the speed of light due to its density and only energy is able to achieve that speed, unlike what we see science fiction movies where spacecrafts reach light speed  almost effortlessly.

And that only makes me dream about what is out there and exploring the universe in its profound massiveness