Why every picture of a black hole is an illustration

Scientists are pretty sure black holes are real. Soon they ll know for sure. Subscribe to our channel The biggest problem with trying to detect a black hole is that even the supermassive ones are relatively tiny. The largest one in the sky is the black hole in the center of the Milky Way, Dimitrios Psaltis, an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona, writes me in an email. And taking a picture of it would be equivalent to taking a picture of a DVD on the surface of the moo