Why Do We Never See Black Holes in Pictures?

We can’t photograph the black holes because the two eyes that mother nature has bestowed upon us are no match for the eyes that contemporary astronomy has to provide.

By Jim Collins

Published: September 4, 2022

The Event Horizon Telescope captured a picture of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, in May 2022. The first image of our black hole. (NASA)