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Watch | What a black hole looks like

Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope facility, a collaboration of over 300 researchers, revealed the first image of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.

The black hole, called Sagittarius A*, is four million times the mass of our Sun and is 27,000 light years from us.

Astronomers have called this “the first direct image of the gentle giant in the centre of our galaxy.”

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