The European Southern Observatory recently made an exciting announcement on Thursday, May 12, that is, today. that they will announce a groundbreaking new event had announced. Although the groundbreaking discovery mentioned in the presentation was unknown, many people believed the discovery might be related to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

That long-awaited announcement was finally made in the live broadcast starting today at 4:00 PM CEST. Scientists have announced that the discovery, which they described as a “breakthrough” in our galaxy, is a supermassive black hole as expected. The supermassive black hole in our galaxy has been seen live for the first time!

Supermassive black hole spotted in our galaxy for the first time!

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The supermassive black hole in our galaxy, the first image released today, was the black hole called Sagittarius A, discovered in 1974 and located 27,000 light-years from Earth. Sagittarius A, shown for the first time 4 million times bigger than the sun has mass.

The image was taken by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) from a total of eight radio observatories. formed an ‘earth-size’ telescope Obtained by the Event Horizon Telescope. The black area in the center of the image is called the ‘shadow’, while the ring-shaped clear structure around it is made up of gases.

• The black hole called M87, which mankind has seen for the first time, and the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A, whose photo has been published for the first time.

Although the photo of the black hole in our galaxy was shared with the world for the first time today, the shared image is that of the EHT team In his observations in 2017 had been obtained.

This success has been made possible by the work of more than 300 researchers from 80 institutes around the world who together form the EHT collaboration. The new discovery also makes it possible to investigate the difference between black holes.

Einstein’s theory turns out to be correct:

In the statement they made on live broadcast, scientists said that the size of the ring around the black hole From Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity He explained that they were surprised at how well it matched the predictions.

This big news was given by Turkish astrophysicist Feryal Özel.

Feryal Özel, who has made a major contribution to the scientific world for many years with his studies in black holes, neutron stars and magnetars, made this development, which is big news for the scientific world, where the first images of the black hole at the center of our galaxy were shared.

Özel, who was also part of the team responsible for capturing the first image of a black hole in history, also served as chairman of the NASA Astrophysics Committee, the chairman of the NASA Lynx Space Telescope Science and Technical Team and the chair of the Space Horizon Telescope Science Council and Working Group on Modeling and Analysis.

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The first photo of a black hole in history was published on April 10, 2019: