One more piece? The organization that took the first black hole photo of mankind announced that it will announce the “breakthrough result” of the center of the Milky Way on May 12

IT House April 29 news, according to CNET reports, the Event Horizon Telescope Project (EHT) announced that it will announce “Breakthrough at the center of the galaxypossibly the first ever photograph of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

In April 2019, EHT released the first photo of a black hole taken by humans, which sparked heated discussions on the Internet. The black hole is called M87*. Subsequent studies have explored the extreme magnetic fields associated with M87*, allowing scientists to further understand the environment around the black hole.

But EHT isn’t just studying M87*, its telescope suite has also been observing the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, called the Sagittarius A*(Sagittarius A*), or Sgr A*. The mass of this black hole is about 4.3 million times that of the sun,Only 25,000 light years from Earth, very close from a cosmic point of view. By comparison, M87* is about 6 billion times the mass of Earth and is about 50 million light-years away.

However, imaging Sagittarius A* is much more difficult than M87*, because cosmic dust and other interfering radio telescopes make observations.

IT Home has learned that EHT did not disclose details about the breakthrough, but according to reports, many astronomers have speculated that it will beSupermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way captured for the first time. The press conference will be held at 9:00 pm Beijing time on May 12, we can look forward to it together.