Here are 19 amazing images from space to end the year on a high note.

Black hole’s shadow

This is the first picture ever taken of a black hole. It is situated in the Messier 87 Galaxy’s center. The picture was created using information gathered by the Event Horizon Telescope, a group of radio observatories. It is possible to observe the shadow of the black hole, which is encircled by a brilliant disk of interstellar gas and whose edge is the event horizon (the point of no return).

Credit: Collaboration for the Event Horizon Telescope