12 May 2022 at 15:00 CEST (13:00 UTC, 9:00 EST)
Mark the date in your calendar, there's an announcement afoot !
ESO (European Southern Observatory) is going to be making a world wide announcement, and while the details of it are being kept very closely to their heart, they have referred to the announcement as "groundbreaking", and the last time they used that term, the following image was released.
M87 Supermassive black hole was imaged as it's direct on to us, several billion times the mass of the Sun, and being in an elliptical galaxy, wasn't obscured by dust and gas, having long since been silenced by the constant heating by this mammoth.
Sagittarius A* is our own supermassive black hole, at the centre of our galaxy, and obscured by entire arms of stars, dust and gas, so very very hard to spot, still, speculation is, the same technique has been turned to imagining Sag A*, and being only 25,000+ light years from us, rather than 53.49 million light years, the results could be well .. ground breaking ! if not breath taking.
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In two weeks' time, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is going to present the world with new information about our Milky Way.
