The image is a long-anticipated look at the massive object that sits at the very centre of our galaxy. 1Joined in 1990 by the Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN, Spain).The results are published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. , played a key role in this result via its 30-meter telescope, located near Granada, the most sensitive single antenna of the EHT network.

The Institute for Millimeter Radio Astronomy (IRAM), founded in 1979 by the CNRS and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG, Germany) 1 The image was produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, using observations from a worldwide network of radio telescopes. This result provides overwhelming evidence that the object is indeed a black hole and yields valuable clues about the workings of such giants, which are thought to reside at the centre of most galaxies. It’s the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this black hole at the centre of our galaxy.Īstronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy.Within the EHT collaboration, the CNRS and IRAM participated in the creation of a first image of the black hole Sagittarius A*.He further said, ‘We haveĪchieved something presumed to be impossible just a generation ago. Professor Doeleman has stated that theĪchievement is an ‘an extraordinary scientific feat’. This real!’ Katie Bouman, a PhD student at MIT, created the algorithm that wasĪble to put the data from the EHT together. Journey, but this is what I wanted to see with my own eyes. They actually are – he was certain that an image could be obtained.Ĭase after arguing for about twenty years. Owing to their extreme gravity, the black holes appear 2.5 times larger than Particular kind of radio emission would be created close to and all around theīlack hole, strong enough to be picked up by telescopes located on Earth.Ĭombined with the knowledge from a scientific paper from 1973 – suggesting that This project when he was a PhD student back in 1993. So far, it looks like Einstein is correct once That the image we observe is so similar to that which we obtain from our Nature of space and time, and ultimately of our existence. Simple objects, black holes raise some of the most complex questions about the London, part of the EHT collaboration, said, ‘Although they are relatively The edge of the dark circleĪt the center is the point where the gas makes its entry into the black hole.īlack holes have such an extreme gravitational pull that even the light cannot The light is brighter than all of the billion other stars in the galaxyĬombined – the reason why it is visible from Earth. You will, is created because of the superheated gas making its way into the It is an absolute monster, the heavyweight champion ofįire that is surrounding a perfectly circular dark hole. And it is one of the heaviest black holes It has a massĦ.5 billion times that of the Sun.

‘What we see is larger than the size of our entire Solar System. University in the Netherlands, the person who proposed this experiment, said, The details have already been published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. It is about 500 million trillion kilometers away and was captured in an image thanks to a network of eight telescopes across the world known as Event Horizon Telescope. The scientists have described the black hole measuring 40 billion kilometers across as ‘a monster’. Astronomers have successfully taken the very first image of a black hole located in a distant galaxy.

Very first image of a black hole