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First image of our Milky Way's black hole may be inaccurate, scientists say
"We hypothesize that the ring image resulted from errors during EHT's imaging analysis and that part of it was an artifact, rather than the actual astronomical structure."
The EHT project made history in 2019 when it unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole, marking a technological breakthrough that brought to light the silhouette of the elusive cosmic beast residing at the heart of the M87 galaxy. "Sgr A* is like a toddler who can't stay standing still while we are taking its photo over the course of a night," Bouman said in the 2022 news release, which sought to outline scientists' effort to image the two black holes. Based on thousands of images that captured how the black hole's appearance changed across multiple observing nights, the vast majority of the computer simulations depicted a bright ring of light as big as the orbit of Mercury, in agreement with predictions from Albert Einstein ’s theory of general relativity.
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