The Big Reveal of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

The Big Reveal of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

More than three years after the release of the first-ever image of a black hole, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) shared an image of Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star) — the supermassive specimen sitting at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. In this video, EHT's astronomers, astrophysicists and data scientists explain the science behind the big discovery.

Read more at Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-hole-image-reveals-sagittarius-a-20220512/

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