{"id":129029,"date":"2022-05-12T20:47:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T20:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/astronomers-reveal-the-first-ever-photo-of-black-hole-in-milky-way\/"},"modified":"2022-05-12T20:47:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T20:47:45","slug":"astronomers-reveal-the-first-ever-photo-of-black-hole-in-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/astronomers-reveal-the-first-ever-photo-of-black-hole-in-milky-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Reveal the First-Ever Photo of Black Hole in Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For the first time in history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/space\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">astronomers<\/a> have captured a photo of the\u00a0black hole at the heart of our galaxy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Via the\u00a0Event Horizon Telescope, astronomers have shared the image of the Milky Way\u2019s\u00a0Sagittarius A*, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/eventhorizontelescope.org\/blog\/astronomers-reveal-first-image-black-hole-heart-our-galaxy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EHS<\/a> website. While the black hole itself\u2014which has been discussed by scientists for years\u2014cannot be seen, the image shows what\u2019s called\u00a0a \u201cshadow,\u201d essentially a ring surrounding its central area. The hole is estimated to be\u00a0four million times larger than our sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were stunned by how well the size of the ring agreed with predictions from Einstein\u2019s\u00a0Theory of General Relativity,\u201d\u00a0said EHT project scientist Geoffrey Bower from the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei.\u00a0\u201cThese unprecedented observations have greatly improved our understanding of what happens at the very centre of our galaxy, and offer new insights on how these giant black holes interact with their surroundings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hole itself is roughly 27,000 light-years away from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/earth\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Earth<\/a>, and astronomers tapped the\u00a0EHT to link eight radio observatories across the globe to create one telescope. Previously, the telescope captured an image of the black hole M87* in the\u00a0Messier 87 galaxy, but this marks the first time one has been taken in\u00a0the Milky Way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\" \/>\n<p>\u201cWe have two completely different types of galaxies and two very different black hole masses, but close to the edge of these black holes they look amazingly similar,\u201d\u00a0said Sera Markoff, co-chair of the EHT Science Council.\u00a0\u201cThis tells us that General Relativity governs these objects up close, and any differences we see further away must be due to differences in the material that surrounds the black holes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 300 researchers from 80 institutes across the globe came together for the\u00a0EHT Collaboration, and worked for five\u00a0years to combine and research data. Now, with two black holes of differing size, scientists can learn more about\u00a0how they compare and contrast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/astronomers-reveal-first-ever-photo-of-black-hole-milky-way\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in history, astronomers have captured a photo of the\u00a0black hole at the heart of our galaxy.\u00a0 Via the\u00a0Event Horizon Telescope, astronomers have shared the image of the Milky Way\u2019s\u00a0Sagittarius A*, per the EHS website. While the black hole itself\u2014which has been discussed by scientists for years\u2014cannot be seen, the image shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11395,111,112,1863,5,3932,7,8,237,238,6178,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy-club","category-dfp-politics","category-dfp-politics-govt","category-earth","category-featured","category-galaxy","category-music","category-news","category-science","category-space","category-stars","category-tier-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129031,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129029\/revisions\/129031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}