April’s Stellar Space Pictures
APR 30, 2019
This month: Black holes and stellar revolutions.

A wide-field view of the first ever black hole to be imaged.
NASA/CXC/Villanova University/J. Neilsen
(Inside Science) -- This month, astronomers discovered firsts in many categories. The most notable was the first ever picture of a black hole event horizon. Others include the first type of molecule ever formed, and the first sighting of a scene straight out of science fiction found more than 3,000 light-years away.