An image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy has been captured for the first time
Animations zoom in on the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Video: ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger , DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, GRAVITY Collaboration, EHT CollaborationAt the heart of our galaxy, between 26,000 and 27,000 light-years from Earth, lies a black hole four million times as massive as the sun.
The image, released Thursday during simultaneous news conferences hosted by various institutions in seven countries, reveals the black hole, named Sagittarius A*, as a dark center silhouetted against a bright orange-yellow ring. Black holes by their very nature are unseeable, but their boundaries cast a shadow against the bright backdrop of hot gas and dust that encircles them. That shadow is what’s visible to certain telescopes on Earth.
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