According to the information transferred from NTV; The international consortium that manages the Event Horizon Telescope, which consists of eight synchronized radio telescopes worldwide, has shared for the first time a colorized image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.
University of Arizona Professor of Astrophysics Feryal Özel described the black hole 27 thousand light years away from the earth.gentle giant in the center of the galaxyThe private noted that the Milky Way black hole is named “Sagittarius A”, which is near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpio, and is 4 million times larger than the sun.
Astronomers researching with the Event Horizon Telescope previously imaged the black hole of a galaxy 53 million light-years away in 2019.
Astronomers believe that at the center of nearly all galaxies, including the Milky Way, are these giant black holes, from which light and matter cannot escape.
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