This is the first image of a black hole

Supermassive black hole at the Centre of the M87 galaxy. Credit: EHT

For over two weeks the Event Horizon Telescope has showcased 11 millimeter-radio observatories across the globe that are planned for the full EHT array observations in 2020. The first observational campaign in 2017 was performed with 8 observatories at 6 locations. Find out which those were in this summary of the tour on the official EHT website. 

The Event Horizon Telescope is a global network of synchronized radio observatories that work in unison to observe radio sources associated with black holes with angular resolution comparable to their event horizons. The required extreme resolving power makes scientists and engineers go to some of the most extreme environments on the Earth to collect data. 

The actual Observatories are, Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), IRAM 30-meter Telescope at Pico Veleta in Spain, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) at Maunakea in Hawaii, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) at Maunakea in Hawaii, Large Millimeter Telescope "Alfonso Serrano" (LMT) at Sierra Negra in Mexico, Submillimeter Array (SMA) at Maunakea in Hawaii, Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) at Mount Graham in Arizona, The South Pole Telescope (SPT) in Antarctica, The Greenland Telescope (GLT) at Thule Air Base in Greenland, Kitt Peak 12-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak in Arizona and the NOEMA Observatory at Plateau de Bure in France. 

Now an international team of scientists have shared the first images of at the supermassive black hole at the Centre of the M87 galaxy captured by the Event Horizon Telescope on Wednesday morning, presenting this "groundbreaking result,". This supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo is one of the most massive galaxies in the local Universe and it is at 53 million light-years of distance from erarth.