Humans will "absolutely" be in Mars in the future, NASA chief scientist Jim Green told USA Today. And, the first person to go is likely living today, he said.
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.