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The Milky Way above a single MeerKAT antenna in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Inset: EHT image of the Milky Way black hole. SARAO, EHT Roger Deane, University of the Witwatersrand and Iniyan Natarajan, University of the Witwatersrand Astronomers have revealed the first image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The …

Concept of a black hole acting as a lens on background light. Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock Adam McMaster, The Open University and Andrew Norton, The Open University Astronomers famously snapped the first ever direct image of a black hole in 2019, thanks to material glowing in its presence. But many black holes are actually near impossible to detect. Now another team using …