Behold the first image of a Supermassive Black Hole. My word, the future is dope!

Yo! We got it, friends. The first image of a black hole. Space continues to be metal as fuck, and we continue to plunder its secrets.

Boing Boing:

One day, my children, all this will be yours.

From The National Science Foundation:

So how were scientists able to “see” the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy 53 million light years away? …

It is still impossible to image the actual black hole (again, that intense gravity let’s nothing escape) so the data being collected is light from the material around the event horizon of the object — the “point of no return” of a black hole. What we are seeing is truly the silhouette of a black hole.

This is what it is like to stare directly into the void.