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More: Why the first black hole image is fuzzy, and more questions answered By combining the data from the various telescopes placed around the world, the Event Horizon Telescope has as much magnifying power as a telescope the size of the entire Earth. The telescope caught whatever light it was able to detect near the black hole. Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said, “These remarkable new images of the M87 black hole prove that Einstein was right yet again." “The predicted size and shape of the shadow theory match our observations remarkably well, increasing our confidence in this century-old theory.” “The Event Horizon Telescope allows us for the very first time to test the predictions of Einstein’s general theory of relativity around supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies,” according to project scientist Dimitrios Psaltis of the University of Arizona. A century ago, Einstein even predicted the symmetrical shape that scientists found. The image helps confirm Albert Einstein’s general relativity theory. This black hole is 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the sun. Start the day smarter: Get USA TODAY's Daily Briefing in your inbox They chose "exquisite gold because this light is so hot," said Jessica Dempsey, a co-discoverer and deputy director of the East Asian Observatory in Hawaii. "Making it these warm gold and oranges makes sense." The measurements are taken at a wavelength the human eye cannot see, so the astronomers added color to the image.

This black hole’s “event horizon” – the precipice, or point of no return, where light and matter begin to fall inexorably into the hole – is as big as our entire solar system. The telescopes are in Chile, Hawaii, Arizona, Mexico, Spain and at the South Pole.

Images came from a collection of eight telescopes around the world specifically designed to peer at black holes. "The picture taken by the Event Horizon Telescope shows us what they really look like." “For years, science fiction movies have imagined what black holes look like," said Duncan Brown of Syracuse University. Against a bright backdrop, such as this disk, a black hole appears to cast a shadow. That hot disk of material that encircles the hole shines bright, according to NASA. Since the black hole is, well, black, what we see in the image is gas and dust circling the hole, just far enough away to be safe.

“This is an extraordinary scientific feat accomplished by a team of more than 200 researchers.” We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole," said Sheperd Doeleman, Event Project Horizon project director at Harvard University. “We have seen what we thought was unseeable. It looked like a flaming orange, yellow and black ring. The picture reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the "nearby" Virgo galaxy cluster. It's our first glimpse of one of the weirdest spectacles in the universe: Astronomers released humanity's first image of a black hole Wednesday.