Black hole at the centre of our Galaxy imaged for the first time

The Event Horizon Telescope network has captured the second-ever direct image of a black hole — called Sagittarius A* — at the centre of the Milky Way.
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Radioastronomers have imaged the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. It is only the second-ever direct image of a black hole, after the same team unveiled a historic picture of a more distant black hole in 2019.

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Nature 605, 403-404 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01320-y

Additional reporting by Freda Kreier.

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  • Correction 20 May 2022: An earlier version of this story incorrectly described Katie Bouman as a former EHT team member. She is a current member of the EHT team.

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  1. Akiyama, K. et al. Astrophys. J. Lett. 930, L12 (2022).

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