Tag: Event Horizon Telescope

An enormous swirling vortex of hot gas glows with infrared light, marking the approximate location of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. This multiwavelength composite image includes near-infrared light captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and was the sharpest infrared image ever made of the galactic center region when it was released in 2009. Read more about image - here. Credit: NASA, ESA, SSC, CXC, STScI

NASA’s Webb And Event Horizon Telescope Focus On Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

MessageToEagle.com | October 28, 2021

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – On isolated mountaintops across the planet, scientists await word that tonight is the night: The complex coordination between dozens of telescopes on

This Chandra image shows our Galaxy’s center. The location of the black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A* for short, is arrowed. Credit: NASA/CXC/MIT/Frederick K. Baganoff et al.

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Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Probed Like Never Before

MessageToEagle.com | December 6, 2015

MessageToEagle.com – The gigantic black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy is coming into sharper focus. For the first time ever, astronomers have detected magnetic fields