Event Horizon: Scientists Edge Closer to Imaging Black Hole at Center of Milky Way

Event Horizon: Scientists Edge Closer to Imaging Black Hole at Center of Milky Way

5 years ago
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http://www.newsweek.com/event-horizon-scientists-edge-closer-imaging-black-hole-center-milky-way-944572

New analysis of observations from telescopes around the world has brought scientists one step closer to imaging the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*.

The observations form part of the hugely ambitious Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, which links together telescopes around the world over the internet, essentially creating a powerful global observatory. The goal of EHT is to image, for the first time, the event horizon—the point of no return beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape the immense gravitational pull of the black hole.