
How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy's Black Hole
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Supermassive News From Space
The first image of the super massive black hole at the centre of the milky way, sach as harrius a starr, was just released by astronomers this morning. I'm here talking to seth fletcher, our chief features editor for scientifica an. He literally wrote a book on the event horizon telescope and is our resident expert on all things black holes. So south, what does it actually take to photograph a black hole? They trap everything that falls inside, including light. Anything that passes through the event horizon, which is the boundary a, is trapped there forever. T can just never escape.
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