The international consortium that manages the Event Horizon Telescope, which consists of eight synchronized radio telescopes worldwide, has shared for the first time a colorized image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.
Feryal Özel, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Arizona, described the black hole 27,000 light-years away from Earth as “the gentle giant at the center of the galaxy”. Special noted that the Milky Way black hole is named “Sagittarius A”, which is near the border of the constellations of Sagittarius and Scorpio, and is 4 million times larger than the sun.
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Astronomers researching with the Event Horizon Telescope previously imaged the black hole of a galaxy 53 million light-years away in 2019.
Astronomers believe that at the center of nearly all galaxies, including the Milky Way, are these giant black holes, from which light and matter cannot escape.
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