Big Blackhole animation

The NASA animation highlights supermassive black holes, found at the centers of galaxies like our Milky Way, with masses ranging from hundreds of thousands to billions of times that of the Sun. Light crossing the event horizon becomes trapped, creating shadows larger than the actual black hole. The animation showcases ten such black holes, including those in dwarf galaxies, the Milky Way (Sagittarius A*), NGC 7727, and M87, with updated masses. It concludes with TON 618, an extremely distant black hole with a shadow so vast that light would take weeks to traverse it.