Daily Mail News – UK – Science
They are the ‘monsters’ that lurk at the heart of most big galaxies.
And now a new NASA animation reveals just what puts the ‘super’ into supermassive black holes.
It shows 10 of the most mysterious star-gobbling giants occupying the centre of their host galaxies, including the Milky Way and M87.
The animation scales each of the behemoths by the size of their shadows, which we got a closer look at when the first images of black holes revealed a bright ring of hot orbiting gas surrounding a circular zone of darkness.