Here's a simulation of what the Event Horizon Team thought the black hole would look like. And here's the real image. The light you see here is what's called the accretion disk. It's a disk of ...

Joseph A. Leist | Hamilton, New Jersey It’s true, no light can escape a black hole’s “event horizon,” or boundary, says Avi Loeb, a theorist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.