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first clear image of blackhole (lemmy.world)

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[-] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

I think you might be thinking of a different black hole. This one is in our galaxy, the first one imaged was in m87. The one in our galaxy is actually harder to "see" as there is stuff in the way.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago

There were two one was m87, and I'm sure the other one was Sagittarius A*

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