It's a big day for astronomy (and all humans, really).  The first image of a black hole has been released.  It was created using the Event Horizon Telescope—a collaboration of radio telescopes around the world.  This image shows the material around a super massive blackhole in the center of a galaxy some 55 million light-years away. Yes, there is a ton of cool physics here, involving the crazy gravitational things that happen in extreme cases like a black hole.

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