'It's home,' said Jessica Dempsey, an Australian astrophysicist and member of the EHT team. Well, for one, it's our supermassive black hole. The black hole's spinning too, but it’s skew-whiff - slightly tilted face-on to us.īut despite this veritable goldmine of information about our galaxy's black hole, there's still plenty we're yet to discover. It's the culmination of five years of simulations and data crunching.Īnd while it might look a bit like a glazed donut, there's more to the new image than meets the eye.įor one, it tells us the black hole is 4 million times the mass of the Sun - a figure physicists suspected, but is now confirmed. Overnight, the international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) crew revealed an image of superheated gas coursing around and falling into Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way's core. There's a monster twirling around in the centre of our galaxy, and its portrait has finally been unveiled.