It is a thing of mesmerising beauty: humanity's first glimpse at the only full resolution photo of a supermassive black hole ever produced.This 'orange donut', as it has been dubbed, sits at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth and in 2019 became the first black hole to be directly imaged by astronomers.Now, with the help of artificial intelligence () machine learning, it has received its first official makeover — and the results reveal that rather than being a 'fuzzy donut', it is actually more of a 'skinny donut'.
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