Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes capture
Keep in mind as well that no observation has yet distinguished between a neutron star and a black hole.<p>i.e. all those photos of super massive objects could be neutron stars, and we would not be able to tell the difference.<p>They are assumed to be black holes because of the mass, but if there is something in the law of physics that prevents black holes from forming we would not know.<p>We do not have a theory on quark degenerative pressure for example, which could possibly exert enough pressure to prevent black holes from forming (you would get quark stars instead, with no event horizon).<p>There are also time dilation issues that might make black holes impossible.