Astronomers Capture First Image of Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole astronomy space science
This is the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: EHT Collaboration.
To image Sgr A*, which is about 27,000 light-years away from Earth, the EHT team created the powerful, which linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single Earth-sized virtual telescope. “We have two completely different types of galaxies and two very different black hole masses, but close to the edge of these black holes they look amazingly similar,” said Professor Sera Markoff, co-chair of the EHT Science Council and am astrophysicist at the University of Amsterdam.
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