Sagittarius A* is concealed by a multilayered veil. The first layer is the galactic plane—26,000 light-years’ worth of gas and dust that blocks visible light.

Hello Sagittarius A*: NASA takes picture of black hole at our galaxy's center The new imaging, the result of a multi-year collaboration between multiple specialized telescopes, ...

Now, the team is back with another photo of a black hole, this one right in our own backyard. Located 26,000 light-years from Earth, Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, is thought to be roughly 4 million ...

This image of Sagittarius A*, ... "This is driving us to make even better measurements and sharper images," Johnson said. Sagittarius A* and the black hole in M87 were the EHT's top two targets ...

About 26,000 light-years away, Sagittarius A* may be the most massive thing in the galaxy, but it is pretty small as far as supermassive black holes go—about 1/1500 of the mass of M87’s ...

Scientists have captured the first image of the monster black hole lurking at the heart of our galaxy. Our galaxy's black hole, in numbers. 27,000 light-years: Sagittarius A*'s distance from our ...

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from ...

The first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. Picture: AFP PHOTO / European Southern Observatory.

The first picture we took was of M87, which is much, much larger than Sagittarius A*, and that makes a difference. “Sagittarius A* is a thousand times smaller than M87—still a monster, but a thousand ...

Here's a new, ‘twisted' look at the black hole at the center of our galaxy The imagery shows a fiery swirl around Sagittarius A*, and a similar one around another supermassive black hole, M87 ...

And this time, the picture captured Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole that lurks at the heart of our own Milky Way galaxy.