Summary:
- Astronomers have captured an image of a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy, nicknamed the "Eye of Sauron" due to its resemblance to the iconic eye from the Lord of the Rings series.
- The black hole is located in the galaxy Messier 87, which is about 55 million light-years from Earth, and is one of the most massive known black holes in the universe.
- The image was captured using a global network of radio telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope, which allowed scientists to observe the black hole's event horizon, the point of no return beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape.