“The trouble with Sagittarius A* is that it changes very rapidly – it’s a supermassive black hole but it’s much smaller than M87. “The way the EHT works is each pair of telescopes picks up information, and as the Earth rotates, another pair takes over from the previous one and picks up more information,” he says. The image was captured by the Event Horizon. This is the second image of a black hole ever created. EHT scientists used a similar technique to create the first images of a black hole M87’s event horizon, released in 2019. Miller-Jones says this will give a much sharper image, and potentially allow researchers to put together more than a photo. For the first time, scientists have taken a picture of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy. The supermassive black hole casts a shadow on this glowing, gobbled-up gas. So the plan is now to add up to eight more telescope sites to the original eight that collected data for the M87 and Sgr A* images. The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black hole at the center of M87, finding the dark central shadow in accordance with Gener. In so doing they collect huge amounts of data which can be stitched together to produce an image of the black hole, a stunning technical achievement.īut Miller-Jones says despite the amazing nature of the picture, anyone can see it is blurry, owing to the incredible distances involved – it has been likened to trying to photograph the bubbles in a glass of beer in New York from a beer garden in Berlin.

Picture of black hole