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A Picture of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

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This is an image of the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Visit https://www.kiwico.com/veritasium30 to get 30% off your first month of any crate! ▀▀▀ Image of Sgr A* from EHT collaboration Event Horizon Telescope collaboration: https://ve42.co/EHT Animations from The Relativistic Astrophysics group, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Massive thanks to Prof. Luciano Rezzolla, Dr Christian Fromm and Dr Alejandro Cruz-Os

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this video is sponsored by kiwiko more about them at the end of the show this is a picture of the supermassive black hole at the center of our milky way galaxy known as sagittarius a-star the black hole itself doesn't emit light so what we're seeing is the hot plasma swirling around it this is only the second picture of a black hole ever it was taken by the event horizon telescope collaboration the same people who brought you this image of the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy m87 now their original plan was to image sagittarius a star first since it's in our own galaxy it is 2 000 times closer than m87 star but it's also over a thousand times smaller so from earth it appears only slightly larger than m87 star and there are a number of additional challenges to observing it first of all there is a lot of dust and gas between us and the center of our galaxy so you can't even see it with visible light in this video from the european southern obser