First ever black hole image released BBC News

Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy. It measures 40 billion km across three million times the size of the Earth and has been described by scientists as a monster. The black hole is 500 million trillion km away and was photographed by a network of eight telescopes across the world. Details have been published today in Astrophysical Journal Letters. Prof Heino Falcke, of Radboud University in the Netherlands, who proposed the experiment,