Sagittarius A*
The supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's centre, about 4.3 million solar masses, first imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2022.
- Mass
- ~4.3 million Suns
- Distance
- ~26,000 light-years
Source: EHT Collaboration 2022
Black Holes
Where gravity wins completely. Nothing, not even light, escapes inside the event horizon.
M87*
The first black hole ever imaged (2019): about 6.5 billion solar masses at the centre of galaxy M87.
- Mass
- ~6.5 billion Suns
- Distance
- ~55 million light-years
Source: EHT Collaboration 2019