Revealing the first image of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way

According to AFP news agency (France), a group of astronomers called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project has released a picture of black hole The aforementioned is located in the Sagittarius A* (Sagittarius A*) region, the center of the Milky Way. This is the result of collaboration over the past 5 years by more than 300 scientists in 80 countries around the world, marking the first time that the presence of a black hole has been confirmed through images.

Astronomer Geoffrey Bower at Taiwan’s Academia Sinica (China), a member of ETH, emphasized that this unprecedented discovery has greatly improved the scientific understanding of what happens. in the center of the Milky Way.

According to Space.com, during a joint press conference held around the world on the same day, astrophysicist Feryal Özel at the University of Arizona (USA) expressed joy when EHT shared a special image that said: above.

In addition to the image of the newly discovered black hole, the astronomers participating in the EHT project also published 6 reports analyzing the results. These reports are expected to be published in detail in the near future.

Since 1974, scientists have assumed that a supermassive black hole is “lurking” in the chaotic region of the center of the Milky Way after detecting an unusual source of radio waves from the region. this. In the 1990s, astronomers re-mapped the orbits of the brightest stars and discovered at the center of the Milky Way a supermassive object, although not yet confirmed as a black hole. This achievement helped two scientists Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020.

Previously, in April 2019, ETH captured the first image of a black hole in galaxy M87 55 million light-years from Earth, marking a breakthrough for astronomy in particular and physics in particular. shared.

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