The first glimpse of the event horizon of a black hole can now be seen for the very first time as a result of a seven-year project linking telescopes all over the world.
The world-first image shows the supermassive black hole at the centre of M87, a neighbouring galaxy to the Milky Way.
During one of seven simultaneous press conferences where the scientists announced their findings to the world, France Cordova, director of the US National Science Foundation, said this was the first time the world got to see a black hole that was not an artist’s impression, adding that this was ‘a huge day in astrophysics’.