5 stunning NASA images that unveil the mystery of black holes

Scientists used the Event Horizon Telescope to capture the first image of a black hole, located at the center of galaxy M87

Image Credit: NASA, Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

A black hole's gravity bends light from its disk, with the most distortion seen when viewed edge-on

Image Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman

Close-up view of the M87 galaxy's core captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Image Credit: NASA/CXC/Villanova University/J. Neilsen

This illustration shows a runaway black hole forming a 200,000-light-year trail of stars as it speeds through space, based on Hubble data

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI)

This artist's depiction shows two active black holes in merging galaxies, each with a hot gas accretion disk and jets of energy shooting out at near light speed, powered by magnetic fields

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)