First Pic Of Black Hole In Milky Way's Centre, 27,000 Light Years Away
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Black hole: The image -- produced by a global team of scientists known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration -- is the first, direct visual confirmation of the presence of this invisible object, and comes three years after the very first image of a black hole from a distant galaxy.
An international team of astronomers on Thursday unveiled the first image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy -- a cosmic body known as Sagittarius A*.
The image -- produced by a global team of scientists known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration -- is the first, direct visual confirmation of the presence of this invisible object, and comes three years after the very first image of a black hole from a distant galaxy.
"It's very exciting to show you today this best-ever image" of Sagittarius A*, EHT project director Huib van Langevelde told a press conference in Garching, Germany.
Black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that nothing can escape, including light.
