SpazeSupermassive black hole
M87*
The first black hole ever photographed, in 2019: a ring of light around a shadow bigger than our whole solar system.
- Mass
- 6.5 billion Suns
- Horizon
- ~38 billion km wide
- Photographed
- 2019, EHT
Around it
- Hot magnetised plasma
No surface: an event horizon 6.5 billion Suns heavy
Measured by Event Horizon Telescope