Now they have a direct view of what Feryal Özel, a professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Arizona, called the 'gentle giant' itself. First you had to convince yourself that you were looking at real data. This is a picture of a supermassive black hole (artist illustration). In the case of Sgr A*, scientists have previously observed stars orbiting around the Milky Way's center. This past April, a picture of a black hole, captured by a global network of. But scientists have been able to detect and study them based on the powerful effects they exert on their surroundings. Its mass is about 4 million times that of the sun, and it's about 27,000 light years from Earth, according to MIT.īlack holes have long been a source of public fascination, but they also pose notorious challenges to researchers, mainly because their gravitational fields are so strong that they either bend light or prevent it from escaping entirely.

The black hole is often referred to as Sgr A*, pronounced sadge ay star. It’s not the first picture of a black hole this collaboration has given usthat was the iconic image of M87, which they revealed on April 10, 2019. In order to observe them, telescopes are equipped with special instruments which observe the. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they succeeded, unveiling the first direct. 'It's the dawn of a new era of black hole physics,' it added. A black hole is an area in space which has a very strong field of gravity and as a result, light is unable to escape from it. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration was designed to capt ure images of a black hole. While this is no substitute for the real deal, (and the algorithms are. The magical image of galaxy NGC 1566 was taken by astronomers with the US. 'We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*,' an international team of astrophysicists and researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope team announced on Thursday. Fun with black holes: Heres what a de-blurred EHT black hole image could look. A supermassive black hole has been captured in a stunning new image surrounded by a group of Spanish Dance‘ stars. 'It's the dawn of a new era of black hole physics,' the Event Horizon Telescope team said as it released the first-ever image of supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way.įor years, the supermassive black hole in the dark center of the Milky Way galaxy has been theorized about and studied - and finally, it's been captured in an image.

Real black hole picture