Humanity got its first glimpse Wednesday of the cosmic place of no return: a black hole. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole," announced Sheperd Doeleman of Harvard, leader of the project. 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: ABC News April 10, 2019 13:11 UTC