The image is real, it's 53,000,000 light years away. The black hole is lot smaller than the black circle in the middle, because for matter to be on stable orbit it has to be some distance away from event horizon. About like this, and the diameter of the black hole itself is about the orbit of pluto (red circle in the middle of the pic bellow is the size of orbit of pluto). You are looking here at black hole from all sides at once, not from any particular perspective, because there is no such thing. Hotter gas you see, is blue shifted, and dimmer gas is red shifted, because of time dilatation. Stuff is spinning around it close to the speed of light, that's from our perspective. For matter that is spinning around black hole, time is taking a long long time.
A few good videos I watched on this lately:
They released it on April 10th, and you post it April 14th, 4 day propagation. Subscribe to those two channels, amazing sht is happening at exponential progress leaps.
What's amazing here is no image of black hole itself, it is the technique with which image was taken. First video explains it.