What you would see if you were close to a non-rotating black hole. Note the double images of all of the bright stars, caused by light being bent by the black hole’s gravity field.
(via APOD)
Jets of plasma fly away from the supermassive black hole in galaxy Hercules A. This image is a composite of visible light and radio data, combined from the Hubble and the Very Large Array.
The jets are composed of plasma, magnetic fields, and subatomic particles; they are travelling near the speed of light, and are 1.5 million light-years in length, dwarfing the galaxy at their centre.
NASA has a high-resolution version of this image available.
Infrared mosaic image of the centre of the Milky Way. Taken by the Hubble Space Telescope; the infra
