Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole.
Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole.
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We saw the presentation of the first image of the supermassive black hole found in the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way, serve as a reference how important this is, that in 2020 Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez received the Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating that in the galactic center about 27 thousand light years away there is this supermassive object with a mass of 4 million times the mass of the sun.
The first image the first direct visual evidence, although in reality the black hole itself cannot be seen, it is impossible to see it, since due to its enormous gravity it swallows all the light and all the radiation, perhaps the hawking radiation but that's another matter, it swallows all the light and therefore we can't see it, but we can see its dark shadow surrounding a ring of bright and hot gas.
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There is a curious thing, another second fact that offers us the image and this time it is a mystery that needs to be explained and that at the moment astronomers do not understand why and that is that Sagittarius A star is inclined with respect to the plane of the galactic ecliptic , instead of seeing the disk of gas perpendicular to us it is tilted a bit about 30 degrees pointing almost towards us towards the earth.
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