Look, it's a black hole!

A black hole

That is the first ever photo of a black hole, Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short). It’s 25,800 light-years away, not very active, and if it were a person, “it would only consume the equivalent of a grain of rice every million years”. Phew!

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