The first picture of "the gentle giant" dwelling at the center of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole, a trapdoor in space-time through which the equivalent of four million suns have been dispatched to eternity, leaving behind only their gravity and violently bent space-time
An image provided by the Event Horizon Collaboration and the National Science Foundation shows the first direct image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Astronomers announced on Thursday, May 12, 2022, that they had pierced the veil of darkness and dust at the center of our Milky Way galaxy to capture the first picture of “the gentle giant” dwelling there: a supermassive black hole, a trapdoor in space-time through which the equivalent of four million suns have been dispatched to eternity, leaving behind only their gravity and violently bent space-time. Image: Event Horizon Collaboration/National Science Foundation via The New York Times
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