The EHT image of Sagittarius A*. Image:
EHT Collaboration
EHT Collaboration
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The incredible image of Sagittarius A* closely resembles the EHT’s initial picture released in 2019, even though our local black hole is a thousand times smaller than the one at the center of Messier 87, known as Messier 87*. The resemblance suggests that many of the mysterious properties of supermassive black holes are similar at different scales, though differences may show up in the images of the material surrounding a black hole, which is made up of stars, gas, and dust. But while the two supermassive black holes may look the same in these images, the new picture of Sagittarius A* was significantly more challenging to capture.
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