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Scientists unveil first image of giant black hole at Milky Way's centre.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team has captured the first image of the black hole at the heart of our own Milky Way galaxy. This supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A* casts a “shadow,” a dark central region surrounded by a ring of glowing hot gas.
This is only the second one ever to be imaged. The feat was accomplished by the same Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Sagittarius A* possesses 4 million times the mass of our sun and is located about 26,000 light-years - the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km) - from Earth.

Credits: Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration

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