A serious post for this thread, as it is something that I find completely fascinating: *** Below is WRONG. it is a picture of the black hole at the center of M87 and is 6.7 Billion Solar Masses in size *** A picture of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, weighing in (ok, massing in, but whatever), at 4 million solar masses. What we see is the accretion disk around the black hole. I find this just one of the great achievements in science. What a time to be alive.
Here is a great video explaining what we are seeing. The warping of space around a black hole has some truly bizarre implications, such as you can see the entire "surface" of the event horizon because of how light gets bent around the black hole.
I want to make a correction: It is not the black hole at the center of OUR galaxy, but galaxy M87 and is 6.7 Billion Solar Masses in size.