When humanity got its first glimpse of a black hole on Thursday, it was an unforgettable moment for 29-year-old Katie Bouman. READ MORE:* Black hole image proves Canterbury University professor's solution* How did scientists capture the black hole image? But if a person were to somehow get close to this black hole, it might not look quite like that, astronomers said. The black hole is about 6 billion times the mass of our sun and is in a galaxy called M87. Unlike smaller black holes, which come from collapsed stars, supermassive black holes are mysterious in origin.

Source: Stuff April 11, 2019 11:37 UTC