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The term ‘Sagittarius A*’, sometimes mentioned in news, refers to<\/p>\n

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\nSagittarius A* is the name given to the supermassive black hole located at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. It is approximately 26,000 light-years away from Earth. It has been a subject of intense study by astronomers, and its image was captured for the first time by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration in 2022.
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\nSupermassive black holes are found at the centers of most large galaxies. Sagittarius A* has a mass equivalent to about four million times that of our Sun.
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\nThe Event Horizon Telescope is a global network of radio telescopes that work together to form a virtual Earth-sized telescope capable of imaging black holes. They previously captured the image of the black hole in galaxy M87.
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