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Image for: Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way


First image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array of eight existing radio telescopes across the planet.
First image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array of eight existing radio telescopes across the planet.

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