Cool Astro Pics

The first picture of the heart of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius *, from the Event Horizon Telescope:

Credit: EHT Collaboration

OK, so it’s a trifle blurry, but what it represents is very cool: A black hole that is the mass of 4 million stars the size of our Sun. More information here.

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