Apod 2.2

Not an actual image of a black hole, depicted here is a computer animation 

of what scientists think a black hole would look like if we were able to get up close to one. What we do know about black holes is that their gravity is so strong that light would bend towards it, as seen here, and would cause some very strange distortions. Also, there is evidence that black holes are the densest states of matter in the universe, and scientists believe that they can be found in stellar binary systems as well as globular clusters, galaxies, and quasars. This background was taken from the 2MASS infrared sky survey, with stars from the Henry Draper catalog photoshopped in.