The team of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project has just revealed to the world the first image of the black hole located in the center of the Milky Way.
This black hole is known as Sagittarius A*, it is located 26 thousand light years from planet Earth and has a mass equivalent to four million suns. Although the black hole is not luminous, the EHT managed to make it visible after locating eight telescopes around the planet and synchronizing them in a single capture.
The EHT team and astronomers hypothesize that black holes are located at the center of most galaxies, and with Sagittarius A* located at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, they could prove this.
It is worth mentioning that scientists managed to locate Sagittarius A* by previously seeing stars orbiting around an invisible, compact mass in the center of the Milky Way. Later they carried out analyzes and with the help of eight telescopes around the planet, they obtained the first visual evidence of it.
On the other hand, José Luis Gómez, member of the EHT Scientific Council and leader of the EHT group at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, recalled that previous studies, which were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020, had already shown that in At the center of our galaxy there was an extremely compact object that even Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity had mentioned long ago.
Due to the EHT we have been able to obtain the first visual confirmation that this object is almost certainly a black hole with properties that are in perfect agreement with Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.