In 2022 the Event Horizon Telescope revealed the first image of the monster at our galaxy’s center, Sagittarius A* — a black hole 4 million times the Sun’s mass, sitting quietly 27,000 light-years away the whole time

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On 12 May 2022 the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration unveiled the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. It’s a bright, slightly lumpy ring of light wrapped around a dark centre. The dark patch is the shadow cast by an object about 4 million times the mass [...] The post In 2022 the Event Horizon Telescope revealed the first image of the monster at our galaxy’s center, Sagittarius A* — a black hole 4 million times the Sun’s mass, sitting quietly 27,000 light-years away the whole time appeared first on Space Daily .