Scientists revealed the first image of a black hole, providing a peek at an object once thought to be unseeable and confirming some of Albert Einstein’s longstanding theories about general relativity. The image released Wednesday, of a black hole at the center of a galaxy roughly 55 million light years from Earth, shows a fuzzy ring of oranges and yellows surrounding a dark center, where light is trapped by the object’s massive gravitational pull. Spreading from the ring are faint orange wisps.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 10, 2019 15:10 UTC