What if you had to take a picture of a donut on the moon?

The moon is 238,000 miles away.

That's what the Event Horizon Telescope (a system of radio telescopes) was able to do, but all the way out to the center of our galaxy.

Or, another way to think about it:

If an astronaut held up a donut on the edge of the moon, that black hole would be about the same size from our position here on Earth.

This is the terrifying donut about 25,000 light years away: