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Making Sense of the Nonsensical: Black Holes and the Simulation Library

After mobilizing more than 300 scientists and engineers to establish a network of synchronized telescopes that form an Earth-sized virtual telescope, the international Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration snapped the first-ever images of supermassive black holes. The first image of the black hole at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy was released in 2019. The latest image, ...

Troy Oakes

A black hole.

Astronomers Reveal a Black Hole at the Heart of our Galaxy

Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. This result provides overwhelming evidence that the object is indeed a black hole and yields valuable clues about the workings of such giants, which are thought to reside at the center of most galaxies. The ...

Troy Oakes

A black hole at the center of our galaxy.