2022 May 01 - First Horizon Scale Image of a Black Hole

In today's image, we see an image of the black hole at the center of the galaxy known as M87. This is an image taken by the Event Horizon Telescope to look at the central regions of galaxies and to view the shadow of the black hole.

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