First Picture of a Black Hole

Messier 87 OR M87 is a supergiant elliptical galaxy with a 

Supermassive Black Hole which 

• is 53 million light-years from Earth
• has a mass 650 Crore times the sun.

How Did they do IT ?

A team led by MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman created CHIRP (Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch).

It combined data from the 8 radio telescope located around the world in Hawaii (2), Chil (2), USA, Mexico, Spain & at the South Pole under an international collaboration Event Harizon Telescope (EHT).

Ring of Fire the hole is caused by superheated gas falling into the hole

Center of the Black Hole with a density & gravitational pull so high that not even light can escape