Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Event Horizon Telescope project announced that they will announce the “groundbreaking results about the Milky Way” obtained with the telescope project today. And the much awaited explanation came…
It has been known that astronomers have been studying the black hole known as Sagittarius A at the center of our galaxy for a while. Scientists knew that Sagittarius A was there and was about 4.3 million times larger than the sun. Only recently have astronomers been able to infer more about exactly how much of the mass at the center of our galaxy is occupied by Sagittarius (about 99.9 percent). Scientists have never seen this black hole. And that changed…
The first image of Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, was released today. Captured with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the image resembles the black hole at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy, also captured with the same telescope.
The following information was provided in the statement:
Today, simultaneous locations around the world including the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Germany At press conferences, astronomers have revealed the first image of a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. This result provides evidence that the object is indeed a black hole and provides valuable clues about the study of such giants, many of which are thought to be at the center of galaxies. The image was produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon Telescope, using observations from a worldwide network of radio telescopes.
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The image is a long-awaited look at the massive object at the very center of our galaxy. Scientists have previously seen stars orbiting something invisible, compact, and very large at the center of the Milky Way. This strongly suggested that this object, known as Sagittarius A*, was a black hole, and today’s image provides the first direct visual evidence of this.
The Event Horizon Telescope project is a global network of radio telescopes working together to study black holes, particularly supermassive black holes at the centers of the distant Messier 87 galaxy and our Milky Way galaxy. The project obtained the first image of the black hole called M87* in 2019, showing a black circle surrounded by a flaming orange ring, which has been compared to Sauron’s eye in Lord of the Rings.
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