The statement of scientists on Thursday is expected to be curious. Because astronomers have some new news to share about our galaxy.
According to the news of the Independent, 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 on Thursday. The announcement will be made at 16:00 CEST at ESO’s headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany; It will also be published on the observatory’s website and YouTube channel.
There are not many details in the announcement. However, it is interpreted that the explanation may be related to the supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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.
Newsweek’s news on the subject includes the following comments:
It is known that astronomers have been studying the black hole known as Sagittarius A at the center of our galaxy for a while. Scientists know that Sagittarius A is there and is 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. This may be about to change.
Alberto Vecchio, professor of astrophysics and director of the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, told Newsweek that scientists may be ready to announce the first Sagittarius A image. This will also be only the second direct view of any black hole after M87 in 2019.
