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Full Version: First Photo of Super Massive Black Hole Sgr A* in Center of Our Galaxy
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It's obscured by dust clouds in visible wavelengths, so this was produced by radio telescopes. A whole collection of radio telescopes working as one, collectively called the Event Horizon Telescope.

The center dark hole is the black hole, the bright circle around it is an accretion disk brightly visible in radio wavelengths.

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/a...our-galaxy

(Event Horizon Telescope photo)

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And here's the sound of a black hole as detected by NASA. Pretty spooky sounding. Maybe into black holes is where we go when we die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWBkZ3bMSV0
Black holes are how the future siphons the past.