Astronomers on Thursday presented an image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way for the first time. The object known as Sagittarius A* is 27,000 light-years from Earth, the mission scientists said in a statement. The image shows the surroundings of the supermassive black hole, as the object itself is invisible by nature, and was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a combination of eight radio observatories on four continents, which together form a kind of super telescope. It shows a dark central region surrounded by a bright ring-shaped structure. In 2019, t…