For the first time ever astronomers capture an image of an actual black hole, not an artist interpretation or CGI. The particular black hole is supermassive measuring a staggering 40 billion km across and is located at the center of the distant Messier 87 galaxy which lies approximately 55 million light years away. The 'ring of fire' surrounding the black hole is caused by dust and gas falling in to its center. The object is so bright that it puts out more light than all the stars in its host galaxy combined. The image itself was captured using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) - a network of eight radio telescopes situated around the world. "Black holes are the most mysterious objects in the universe," said EHT director Sheperd Doeleman. "We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have taken a picture of a black hole." The black hole is 500 million trillion km away and was photographed by a network of eight telescopes across the world. Details have been published today in