Astronomers reveal first photograph of a monster black hole at the heart of our galaxy - CBC News

In another historic first, astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope have taken the first image of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, named Sagittarius A*.

More than 27,000 light-years away, at the heart of our galaxy, lies a supermassive black hole, one that is more than four million times the mass of our sun. It has never been seen. Until today. Ast… [+7542 chars]

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