The Event Horizon Telescope released the first "picture" of a black hole today. This beauty is about 55 million light years away and weighs in at about 6,500,000,000 times the mass of our sun. Of course you can't actually see a black hole so the "picture" is of the event horizon, the boundary where the gravitational pull of the black hole is so strong not even light can escape. The bright ring is the result of light being bent around event horizon by the extreme curvature of space-time. This "picture" is the result of processing petabytes of data from a global array of radio telescopes. So it isn't clear to me how they get an image in visible light from radio telescope data, but that shouldn't detract from the coolness of the image or the significance of accomplishment.
Details at : https://eventhorizontelescope.org/
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