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    THE DARK HEART of our Galaxy

    Jun 16, 2022 4 minutes

    At last, the mystery at the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy has been uncovered. On 12 May at 13:07 UT, the first ever direct visual image of our closest supermassive black hole was unveiled by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team. It was a thrilling, profound moment.

    Though not the first black hole picture presented by the EHT collaboration – that accolade belongs to 087* first presented in April 2019 – it was one long sought after. As nothing, not even light, can escape beyond a black hole’s event horizon, they are impossible to see directly. Instead,

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