What if I told you scientists photographed something that's completely INVISIBLE?

The First Photo of a Black Hole!

How scientists took a picture of the most mysterious thing in space

Scientists took the first-ever photo of a black hole using a telescope as big as Earth!

Imagine trying to take a photo of a donut... on the MOON! That's basically what scientists did on April 10, 2019, when they revealed the very first picture of a black hole!

Black holes are super mysterious. They're like cosmic vacuum cleaners that suck in everything — even light can't escape! For hundreds of years, scientists knew black holes existed, but nobody had ever actually SEEN one. How do you photograph something that's invisible?

Here's where it gets amazing! Scientists from all around the world teamed up to create a telescope as big as EARTH itself! They connected eight powerful telescopes on different continents — from Antarctica to Spain to Hawaii. Together, they formed the Event Horizon Telescope.

For two weeks, these telescopes collected so much data that it filled hundreds of hard drives. They couldn't even send it over the internet — they had to fly the hard drives on airplanes!

💡 The black hole in the first photo is so huge that it would take a jet airplane flying at top speed about 1,000 years just to go around it once!