Black holes are usually thought of as being so greedy that not even light itself can escape their maw. However, the sharpest image yet taken of a black hole has shown that this reputation is not entirely justified: it reveals that these cosmic monsters not only swallow up matter but also fire it across space with extraordinary amounts of energy. SponsoredThe picture is of a supermassive black hole about 55 million light years from Earth that has a mass 6.5 billion times greater than that of the sun. At the heart of a galaxy called M87, it was first captured in an image in 2019. Now scientists have added to the data to provide a detailed view of the region just outside the event horizon

Source: The Times March 25, 2021 00:01 UTC