OT: For space-y and science-y nerds - the Milky Way's black hole has been imaged

Submitted by 1VaBlue1 on May 12th, 2022 at 11:29 AM

I don't know the scientific details, but the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a collection of 11 radio telescopes around the world joined together to image black holes.  It was used to collect thousands of radio images of Sag A* - the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, our very own black hole!  Some of the images were released today, including a video animation, showing the black hole for the first time in history.

No word yet on whether Michigan's 2017-2018 OL has been found...

This is where you can find the black hole when looking at the sky:

These are the radio telescopes used:

This is our black hole (kinda looks like... well, nevermind):

Here is the link to the animation.  There is far more interesting news about this here, because I just some local rando interested in such items that doesn't actually know anything about them!