We May Soon Capture The First Real Image Of A Black Hole

The ALMA telescope array is one of many groups involved with the Event Horizon Telescope project which hopes to image black holes. Humans have never actually seen a black hole with our eyes. A new computer algorithm, created by MIT graduate student Katie Bouman and her team, will hopefully change that. Since black holes are surprisingly small, we need a gigantic telescope to look at them. The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is only about 17 times the diameter of the sun, according to an article published in BBC News, but it's 25,000 light years away... that's far.