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Wow! Scientists From The Event Horizon Telescope Project
Have For The First Time, Using A Virtual Telescope Dish As Large As Earth, Photographed A Real Supermassive Black Hole. The Black Hole Is 55 Million Light-Years From Earth, At The Center Of Galaxy Messier 87, And Has A Mass Some 6.5 Billion Times That Of Our Sun.

First Image Of A Black Hole Is Released By Massive Telescope Project : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/10/711723383/watch-earth-gets-its-first-look-at-a-black-hole

Every image you’ve ever seen of a black hole has been a simulation. Until now. “We have seen what we thought was unseeable,” said Event Horizon Telescope Director Shep Doeleman.