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This Is the First-Ever Picture of a Black Hole

The black hole at the heart of Messier 87. Photo: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

The unseeable can now be seen.

For the first time ever, astronomers have photographed a black hole. This massive void has a mass 6.5 billion times larger than the sun and lies at the center of Messier 87, a galaxy 55 million light-years away. That might explain why the picture is kind of blurry.

This Is the First-Ever Picture of a Black Hole