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A black hole is an astronomical object with a gravitational pull powerful that nothing can escape from it, including light. Black holes form when massive stars collapse at the end of their lifecycle. This collapse causes a singularity, a point where density and gravity become infinite. Surrounding the singularity is the event horizon - the boundary past which no matter or information can escape from the intense gravitational effects. Supermassive black holes likely at the center of most large galaxies. Evidence the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 contains a supermassive black hole over 6 billion times the mass of our sun. NASA recently captured the first image of this black hole’s event horizon and shadow, providing into its formation and behavior. Understanding more about black holes will shed light on galaxies’ formations, the fundamental laws of physics, and intricate processes occurring at the edge of a black hole’s event horizon still shrouded in mystery.