Black Hole Imaged For First Time By Event Horizon Telescope

"Instead of building a telescope so big that it would probably collapse under its own weight, we combined eight observatories like the pieces of a giant mirror. This gave us a virtual telescope as big as Earth—about 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) is diameter."

“It is the challenge of doing something, that has never been attempted before. It is the start of an adventurous journey towards a black hole... However, I think we need more observation campaigns and eventually more telescopes in the network to make a really good image.”