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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science.

I'm Tulika Bose.

Today, supermassive news from space.

The first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

That just areas A star was just released by astronomers this morning.

I'm here talking to Seth Fletcher, our chief features editor for Scientific American.

He literally wrote a book on the event Horizon Telescope

and is our resident expert on all things black holes.

So Seth, what does it actually take to photograph a black hole?

So, I mean, as you know, black holes are technically unseeable.

They trap everything that falls inside, including white.

Anything that passes through the event Horizon, which is the boundary,

is trapped there forever.

It can just never escape.

But supermassive black holes like Sagittarius A star

are surrounded by glowing obliterated matter.

It's orbiting the black hole.

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