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This is the first image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way

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The Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT , is not a real telescope, but a virtual one.

300 astronomers from nearly 80 institutes across the globe joined forces and created a telescope as large as our planet.

They combined their observations in a way no one had ever attempted before with a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry .

This may sound like sci-fi , but it actually works, as the EHT team showed back in 2019 .

The team have already pointed their telescopes to a new target, Sagittarius A star.

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