An international astronomical project that includes Taiwan’s Academia Sinica on Thursday released the first-ever image documenting the existence of a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies have giant black holes at their bustling and crowded center, where light and matter cannot escape, making it extremely hard to capture images of them. Light is bent and twisted around by gravity, as it is sucked into the abyss, along with superheated gas and dust.
The colorized image unveiled on Thursday is from an international consortium comprising 13 research units from around the world. The Event
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NASA has revealed its very first image of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy that was taken with the help of the collaborative Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The photo provides astronomers with more detail that they can study to learn more about our galaxy's black hole.
The world's first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy doesn't portray a voracious cosmic destroyer but what astronomers Thursday called a "gentle giant" on a near-starvation diet.