It is, as the word suggests, a tiny point in space, but it has a LOT of mass. In April 2017, scientists used a global network of telescopes to see and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole, according to an announcement by researchers at the National Science. The magical image of galaxy NGC 1566 was taken by astronomers with the US. It looks like someone has manipulated a photograph of the sky to give an impression of what gravitational lensing would look like. It is not a photograph of one, since there are no black holes close enough for anyone to get the picture.

Thomas (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany).ĭespite all that mass, the actual singularity that forms the core of the black hole has never been seen or imaged. A supermassive black hole has been captured in a stunning new image surrounded by a group of Spanish Dance‘ stars. It’s a real picture - presumably someone claims it is of a black hole. Ma (University of California, Berkeley), and J. First-ever photo of a black hole released By Katie Pavid 8 It is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun, and it is 55 million light years away. van der Marel (Space Telescope Science Institute), Science Credit: NASA, ESA, C.-P. In this computer-generated image, a black hole (top left) tears apart a star. The skewed light from near the black hole Cygnus X-1 reveals new details about the warped space and extraordinarily powerful magnetic fields close to it. It was taken in April 2017 at a distance of 5.5 billion light-years. A photograph of the central core of the quasar 3C 279 and its reactive origin. A year later, astronomers released the world’s second photograph of a black hole. Light from background stars is stretched and smeared as the stars skim by the black hole. In April 2019, the first photograph of a black hole was declared an important milestone in the study of black holes. The first picture of a black hole’s shadow just got even more interesting. The black hole's powerful gravity distorts space around it like a funhouse mirror.

The black region in the center represents the black hole's event horizon, where no light can escape the massive object's gravitational grip. This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy.

Real black hole picture