Scientists have talked about black holes for a long time and inferred its presence based on movement of visible matter but never before have we seen one, till now.

“We’ve now seen the unseeable,” said Avery Broderick, associate professor at the University of Waterloo’s physics and astronomy department, who was part of the international EHT research team. “Black holes are made real — they’re not just the scribblings on theorists’ chalkboards anymore, but they really are out there in the night.”

The image, which shows an orange ring around a round, black silhouette, is of the black hole at the centre of Messier 87 (M87), a galaxy 50 million light-years from Earth. This black hole is one of the most massive known: it’s six billion times more massive than our sun.

Black holes are so dense and have such strong gravity that anything that crosses their threshold — known as the event horizon — gets pulled into them, never to return. That includes both matter and light, making them black and invisible — and therefore very difficult to see and photograph.

Source: CBC

This is an amazing step and man the world of physics is so damn interesting, I love it!