5 Breathtaking Real Images of Black Holes Captured by NASA

By Sheetal Kumari | April 17, 2025

5 Breathtaking Real Images of Black Holes Captured by NASA

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape, formed from collapsed massive stars.

What is a Black Hole?

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Black holes form when massive stars collapse under their gravity after exhausting nuclear fuel. This creates a dense region with immense gravitational pull, trapping everything nearby.

How Black holes are Formed?

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First-ever image of a black hole, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) in 2019.

First Ever Black Hole Image

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Scientists captured the first black hole image using the Event Horizon Telescope, combining multiple telescopes via Very Long Baseline Interferometry to create a powerful virtual telescope.

How did we get the first image of a black hole?

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X-ray image of the Cygnus X-1 black hole, one of the first discovered stellar-mass black holes.

Cygnus X-1 Black Hole

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The Event Horizon Telescope’s (EHT) image of the M87* black hole, located 55 million light-years away.

M87 Black Hole

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The Galactic Center’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), as seen by the Event Horizon Telescope.

Milky Way Black Hole

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Astronomers used Chandra and VLBA to study 16 supermassive black holes, revealing jets that changed direction significantly over millions of years.

‘Death Star’ Black Holes

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Stellar-mass black holes form when massive stars collapse after exhausting their fuel. They typically range from 5 to 100 times the Sun’s mass.

What are Stellar-Mass Blackholes

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