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Sagittarius A* — The Milky Way's Black Hole
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A bright, slightly lumpy orange ring around a dark centre — the shadow of the Milky Way's black hole.
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Caption: The Event Horizon Telescope's 2022 image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Galaxy.
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The second black hole imaged by the EHT, confirming a four-million-solar-mass black hole at the Galactic Centre whose size matches predictions from the orbits of nearby stars.
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- Event Horizon TelescopeEvent Horizon Telescope Collaboration
Horizon-scale images of supermassive black holes (M87*, Sagittarius A*).