The First-Ever Image of The Black Hole at The Center of The Milky Way - Four and a half billion years ago, our pale blue dot was born in the rubble left over from the birth of a star. Since then, we’ve been locked in a cosmic dance; Earth whirls around the Sun; and the Sun whirls around the galactic center – the dark, mysterious heart of the Milky Way.
Contained in that dark heart, around which the entire galaxy revolves, is a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A*, clocking in at roughly 4.3 million times the mass of the Sun. We’ve been able to infer its presence, and measure it, based on the movements of objects around it, but never had we seen the object itself.
That image at the top of the screen – looking like a glorious blurry orange donut – is the dust around and shadow of Sgr A* itself, seen by humanity for the very first time, thanks to the hard work of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration...Read more: https://www.aerospacengineering.net/the-first-ever-image-of-the-black-hole-at-the-cent
