Tests continue for the private space company's Dragon spacecraft's launch escape system and rocket. The company suffered a setback in June 2015 when its Falcon 9 rocket exploded during flight.
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.
