Rosalind Franklin took the x ray diffraction images which led to the discovery of the structure of DNA. Watson, Crick and Wilkins were awarded the Nobel prize in 1962 ... Franklin sadly died of ovarian cancer in 1958 and missed out as these prizes are never given posthumously.

" streams of light and materials emanating from the Black Hole in the first place?"

wouldn't the image be showing the light before it entered the black hole, never to be seen again?

@callmedubious Well since Astronomers, etc, hypothesise that everything is dragged (sucked) in by the immeasurable gravitational forces, INCLUDING light, via the Event Horizon and cannot escape then logically NOTHING could/should emanate from a Black Hole BUT the image produced that I have seen CLEARLY shows beams or what ever they represent emanating perpendicular from the both sides of it.

That was a very old view of a black hole, someone worked out that there is material ejected from a black-hole too an that has been confirmed by observation. This latest image shows a ring of light around the blackhole, but that is light from objects behind it that has been drawn towards it while not sufficiently to be drawn in completely. Hence it is the light from many objects that have been concentrated, or lensed, to give the appearance of a ring.
This is exactly the same technique that is used for detecting planets around other stars, but while most of those were detected from space based single telescopes this required a much larger telescope and the software was used to combine the data from many telescopes to create a single image.
Similar technique is used by combining multiple video frames to provide a sharper image of faces from surveillance tapes. Recent phones are using multiple cameras to do the same thing too. Similar also as by artists that use pointillism for paintings made up of dots.

"If immersed in a bright region, like a disc of glowing gas, we expect a black hole to create a dark region similar to a shadow — something predicted by Einstein’s general relativity that we’ve never seen before," explained chair of the EHT Science Council Heino Falcke of Radboud University, the Netherlands. "This shadow, caused by the gravitational bending and capture of light by the event horizon, reveals a lot about the nature of these fascinating objects and allowed us to measure the enormous mass of M87’s black hole."

So, what we see in the photo is not light emanating from the black hole (which, as you say, is not possible) but the gas around it. [eventhorizontelescope.org]

@Francool But to the best of my knowledge No-one has yet actually seen an ACTUAL Black Hole ergo the entire computer generated image is merely, and at very best, a POSTULATION.

@Francool, @Jnei I did actually say " beams or whatever they represent emanating," did I not?

@Triphid which image did you see? There are no obvious beams in 'the first black hole image'

@Triphid You miss the point, it is not a computer generated image. The computer was used to combine the direct observations of many telescopes pointing at the same point. Hence it IS NOT a postulation.

@Francool I still maintain my point that since NO-ONE has ever ACTUALLY seen a Black Hole then any image generated MUST be merely a postulated Hypothesis to say the very least, the same as if no-one had EVERY excavated a dinosaur fossil but generated what they THEORISED dinosaurs looked like.

underrepresented and unrecognized. I cringe everytime I see stories of the women that were involved in the early space program. And they were women of color on top of that