This is the first image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It’s the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this black hole. It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array which linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single ’Earth-sized’ virtual telescope. The telescope is named after the ’event horizon’, the boundary of the black hole beyond which no light can escape.
This is the first image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It's the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this black hole. It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array which linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single 'Earth-sized' virtual telescope. The telescope is named after the 'event horizon', the boundary of the black hole beyond which no light can escape. Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. Among the team are several UvA scientists. This result provides overwhelming evidence that the object is indeed a black hole and yields valuable clues about the workings of such giants, which are thought to reside at the centre of most galaxies.
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