Scientists reveal first image ever made of a black hole

An international research group that includes an Ontario university has revealed the first ever made of a black hole.

The image was compiled by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHT), a group of global scientists bent on proving the existence of black holes and documenting what they look like.

The image was compiled with help from eight earth-based telescopes and depicts a fiery orange and black ring of gravity-twisted light swirling around the edge of the abyss.

“We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole,” said Sheperd Doeleman of Harvard.

The global team includes Avery Broderick from Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, the sole Canadian stakeholder of the EHT collaboration.

Broderick declared: “Science fiction has become science fact.”

Researchers say their findings help offer further support of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, first announced in 1915.

According to NASA, a black hole is a region in space where the pulling force of gravity is so strong that light is not able to escape and that some black holes are a result of dying stars.