On Wednesday, a team of 150 astronomers snapped the most detailed and beautiful image of Sagittarius A* (SgrA*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the.
Cool: Black holes are fascinating celestial objects. We can’t see them because nothing can escape their gravitational force, not even light. However, astronomers can identify them with radio telescopes that pick up the magnetic radiation emitted by the objects they gobble up. Their latest snapshot of the black hole at the center of our galaxy is stunning.
On Wednesday, a team of 150 astronomers snapped the most detailed and beautiful image of Sagittarius A* (SgrA*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. They captured the picture with the Event Horizon Telescope, a network of radio telescopes dotting the globe.
Compared with an image of the black hole taken in 2022, it is unmistakably clear that it is SgrA*.
