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3 major moments from the ‘golden’ decade of black holes.Read more about black holes and Event Horizon Telescope The project cost nearly $60 million with $28 million coming from the U.S. A light year is 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers). The Milky Way black hole is much closer, about 27,000 light-years away.
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The same group released the first one in 2019 and it was from a galaxy 53 million light-years away. It is 4 million times more massive than our sun. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A(asterisk), near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. The University of Arizona’s Feryal Ozel called the black hole “the gentle giant in the center of our galaxy” while announcing the new image. The telescope is named after the event horizon, the boundary of the black hole beyond which no light can escape. Image by EHT Collaboration It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array which linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single “Earth-sized” virtual telescope. Although part of the light emitted by the stars will be. Around the black hole, the space-time distortion is very large. It’s the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this black hole. The reason why it is called a black hole is because light cannot escape my 'devils grasp', so it looks completely dark on the surface, but this does not mean that the black hole is black. This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.