University of Arizona researchers capture the first image of the Milky Way’s huge black hole

Astronomers have captured the very first picture of an immense black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Experts assure that the hole is 4 million times more massive than the sun and is around 27,000 light-years away. This image has been emerging since the early 1990s when Fulvio Melia, a professor at UArizona’s Department of Physics, and other scientists, began to consider the possibility of capturing this momentous image. Many years later, a research team called the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration used eight synchronized radio telescopes to capture the image, of which two were provided by the University of Arizona.