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EVENT HORIZON TELESCOPE COLLABORATION
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The thing is packed with the heft of four million suns. It is in the heart of our galaxy, cloaked behind gas, dust, and stars. It has never been seen before. That is, until today.
As Nadia Drake reports, scientists using a global telescope network have unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole in our galaxy. Named Sagittarius A*, the darkened back hole is surrounded by a glowing silhouette—and it’s striking, not just to astronomers.
”You work on something, but it’s very abstract,” says the University of Amsterdam’s Sera Markoff, “and then suddenly it’s like—there it is. You’re looking at the black hole.”
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