On 10 April 2019, the European Commission presented a ground-breaking discovery by Event Horizon Telescope - an international scientific collaboration aiming to capture the first image of a black hole by creating a virtual Earth-sized telescope.Carlos Moedas, Member of the EC in charge of Research, Science and Innovation, and 5 scientific experts, indeed Heino Falcke, Professor of Astroparticle Physics and Radio Astronomy at the Radboud University Nijmegen and Chair of the Science Council of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), Monika Moscibrodzka, Assistant Professor at the Department of Astrophysics of the Radboud University Nijmegen, Anton Zensus, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy and Chair of Management Board of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), Luciano Rezzolla, Chair of Theoretical Astrophysics and Director at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP) of the Goethe University of Frankfurt, and Eduardo Ros, Scientific coordinator at the Max Planck Institute of Radio Astronomy, gave a press conference on the first results of the project.