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Astronomers have taken the arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes ever photograph of a black hole. It is located in a far, arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes galaxy called M87, which is 500 million arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes km from Earth. That arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes number is a five followed by twenty zeroes. Scientists estimate the black hole to have a arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes of 40 billion km and to be three million times larger than our planet. Lead arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes Professor Heino Falcke spoke to the BBC about the black hole. He said: "What we see is larger than the arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes of our entire Solar System. It has a arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes 6.5 billion times that of the Sun. And it is one of the heaviest black holes that we think exists. It is an absolute arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes - the heavyweight arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes of black holes in the Universe."

The image of the black hole was captured by an arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes of eight linked telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). No arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes telescope exists that is arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes enough to capture the image. Each of the EHT telescopes is located high up on arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes in Hawaii and Mexico, mountains in the USA and Spain, a arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes in Chile, and in Antarctica. A team of 200 scientists pointed the networked telescopes towards the M87 arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes and scanned it over a period of 10 days. The arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes they gathered was stored on hundreds of hard arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes. It was then collated and processed to produce the image that is now a arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes in space exploration. Professor Sheperd Doeleman called it "an extraordinary scientific arrayastronomerchampiondatadesertdiameterdistantdrivesfeatfirstgalaxygargantuanlandmarkmassmonsterpowerfulsinglesizetrillionvolcanoes".