First black hole images

M87 black hole
     More than 200 scientists in the world have made it possible to record images of M87 black hole that is 500 million trillion kilometres away. The black hole is a region of spacetime with very strong gravitational effects, sucking in stars and light that cannot escape. It is 40 billion km across, 3 million times the size of the earth with the mass 6.5 billion times that of the sun.