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May 12, 2022 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
🧵[1/8] #Breakingnews For the first time #OurBlackHole SgrA* 🌀 in the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way! @ehtelescope collaboration📡
#SgrABlackHole 🧵[2/8] We can’t see the #SgrABlackHole 🌀 itself, instead we see a bright ring of light around a dark central shadow. #OurBlackHole is 27,000 light years away from Earth, so in the sky it is about the same size as a donut on the Moon would be.