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.
first ever image of something previously thought unimageable -- a black hole event horizon. A network of radio antennae around the globe, known as the Event Horizon Telescope, came together to generate the picture from tons of observational data. Above is a wide-field view that NASA’s X-ray observatory Chandra captured in coordination with the Event Horizon Telescope. It shows where the black hole is located at the center of a galaxy 60 million light-years from Earth known as Messier 87. (NASA/CXC/Villanova University/J. Neilsen)" data-credit="">
