In the last 25 years, black hole physicists have uncovered the unimaginable

In April 2019 , the Event Horizon Telescope ( EHT ) revealed to the public that they had succeeded in imaging a black hole using data collected in 2017 .

The black hole in question is M87

located around 55 million light-years away with a mass of about 6.5 billion suns.

The golden ring in the image is material racing around the black hole at near-light speeds.

First image of Sagittarius A

(Sgr A

) was created using data collected in 2017 .

The diameter of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is 14.6 million miles ( 23.5 million kilometers ) J0529-4351 is a quasar powered by a supermassive black hole that is located so far from Earth its light has taken about 12 billion years to reach us.

It is the fastest-growing black hole ever discovered.

LIGO and its collaborating instruments, Virgo in Italy and KAGRA in Japan , have detected a multitude of gravitational wave signals from colliding black hole pairs, merging neutron stars, and even mixed mergers between black holes and neutron stars.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has turned the conundrum into an issue that really needs to be addressed.

The method by which supermassive black holes grow to cosmic titans has already been discussed.