Astronomers capture 1st ever photo of massive black hole

The photo captured over 50 million light years away is 20 billion miles across and the image shows a ring of superheated gas around the black hole. READ MORE: https://abcn.ws/2G342CN The first photo of a black hole is finally here We finally know what a black hole looks like. After decades of conjecture and simulations, an international consortium of scientists released the first ever photos of a black hole on Wednesday. "We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole," Shep Doeleman, Event Horizon Telescope project (EHT) director, said as he revealed the photos at a press conference in conjunction with the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C.