The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released the first picture of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, and it’s just as

First picture of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole revealed

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2022-05-13 13:00:07

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released the first picture of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, and it’s just as predicted

For the first time, scientists have taken a picture of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy. This is the second image of a black hole ever created.

The image was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of observatories around the world operating as a single enormous radio telescope. In 2017, EHT observed two supermassive black holes: the one in the Milky Way, which is called Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*, and the one at the centre of the M87 galaxy known as M87*. The image of M87* was released in 2019, and now, after three more years of painstaking data analysis, the collaboration has finally released its picture of Sgr A*.

“This is what we wanted to deliver on all along,” says EHT researcher Ziri Younsi at University College London. “This is what our black hole looks like.”