Supermassive Black Hole In Our Galaxy Spotted For The First Time!

The European Southern Observatory recently made an exciting announcement on Thursday, May 12, that is, today. that they will announce a groundbreaking new event had announced. While the groundbreaking discovery mentioned in the presentation was unknown, many people thought that the discovery might be related to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

That eagerly awaited announcement was finally made in the live broadcast that started today at 16.00 CEST. Scientists announced that the discovery, which they described as ‘breakthrough’ in our galaxy, is a supermassive black hole, as expected. Supermassive black hole in our galaxy spotted live for the first time!

Supermassive black hole in our galaxy spotted for the first time!

The supermassive black hole in our galaxy, the first image of which was published today, was the black hole named Sagittarius A, discovered in 1974 and located 27,000 light-years from Earth. Sagittarius A, displayed for the first time 4 million times larger than the Sun has mass.

The image is captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) of eight radio observatories in total. formed an ‘Earth-size’ telescope Obtained by the Event Horizon Telescope. The black region in the middle of the image is called the ‘shadow’, while the ring-like bright structure around it consists of gases.

• The black hole named M87, which humanity has seen for the first time, and the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A, whose photo has been published for the first time.

Although the photo of the black hole in our galaxy was shared with the world for the first time today, the shared image is the EHT team’s In his observations in 2017 had been obtained.

This success has been made possible by the work of more than 300 researchers from 80 institutes around the world that together make up the EHT Collaboration. With the new discovery, it will also be possible to examine the difference between black holes.

Einstein’s theory turns out to be correct:

In the statement they made on live broadcast, scientists said that the size of the ring around the black hole From Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity He explained that they were surprised at how well it matched the forecasts.

Live broadcast:

The first black hole photo in history was published on April 10, 2019: