The first ever direct picture of a black hole in the Milky Way could soon be released to an eager public. Many of these black hole seeds then merge to form much larger supermassive black holes, which are found at the centre of every known massive galaxy. Alternatively, a supermassive black hole seed could come from a giant star, about 100 times the sun's mass, that ultimately forms into a black hole after it runs out of fuel and collapses. The Event Horizon Telescope, an international collaboration, uses between 15 and 20 telescopic dishes around the world to collectively observe black holes. The telescopes all need to be pointed in the direction of the black hole and measure radio waves, which are stored on banks of hard disk drives.

Source: Daily Mail April 01, 2019 14:15 UTC