Black Hole finally imaged

The first-ever image of a black hole was released Wednesday by a consortium of researchers, showing the "black hole at the center of galaxy M87, outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon."

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The world was treated to the first-ever image of a black hole today, as an international team of researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope project released their image of a supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy Messier 87 (M87). This image shows a dark disc with the outline of emissions from hot gases swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon.

Located in the Virgo galaxy cluster, the enormous black hole is 55 million light-years from Earth. It has a mass of about 6.5 billion times that of our sun.

And for those of you who may have seen the movie, "Interstellar" - yep, it turns out it looks just like that! Wow.

Check out the full article at NPR

Also, see the article in National Geographic and this YouTube video really explains the image very well - worth watching to the end.