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4 things we’ll learn from the first closeup image of a black hole

Event Horizon Telescope data are giving scientists an image of the Milky Way’s behemoth

FIRST LOOK  The first image from the Event Horizon Telescope may show that the black hole at the center of our galaxy looks something like this simulation.

Bronzwaer, Davelaar, Moscibrodzka and Falcke/Radboud University

By Lisa Grossman

- More than 2 years ago

Editor’s note: On April 10, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration released a picture of the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87.