(Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/Maunakea Observatories via AP) This false-color image released Wednesday, April 10, 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope shows a black hole at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy. Scientists revealed the first image ever made of the mysterious stellar phenomenon after assembling data gathered by a network of radio telescopes around the Earth. It is located about 53 million light years away.