Scientists have revealed the first image ever made of a black hole.
Astronomers revealed the picture on Wednesday in Washington.
They assembled data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world to show the violent neighbourhood near a supermassive black hole.
The image looks like a flaming orange, yellow and black ring.
"We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole. Here it is," said Sheperd Doeleman of Harvard.
Nothing, not even light, escapes from supermassive black holes. They are the light-sucking monsters of the universe theorized by Einstein more than a century ago and confirmed by observations for decades. The event horizon is the point of no return around them.
The results are being published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
