Scientists unveil first ever image of a black hole

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - APRIL 10: EU Research, Science and Innovation Commissioner Carlos Moedas holds a news conference on unveiling of first ever image of a black hole taken by Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global scientific collaboration involving EU-funded scientists, in Brussels, Belgium on April 10, 2019. A network of eight radio observatories on six mountains and four continents, the EHT observed a black hole in Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo, on and off for 10 days in April of 2017 to make the image. Six simultaneous press conferences across the globe are being held on this occasion. (Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)