Astronomers took the ever image of a black . It is in a galaxy 500 million trillion km away. That is a followed by twenty zeroes. The black hole is 40 billion km across and is three million bigger than Earth. An said it was larger than our system. It is 6.5 billion times than the Sun. He called it, "an monster" and "the champion of black holes in the Universe".
A of eight telescopes captured the image. No telescope is powerful to do this. The telescopes are located on , mountains and deserts around the world. One is in Antarctica. A of 200 scientists used the telescopes to scan the over 10 days. The was stored on hundreds of hard drives. The is now a landmark in space . A professor called it "an extraordinary scientific ".