50 - The Black Hole At the Center of the Milky Way

Why This Universe?

11-07-2022 • 31 mins

On May 12, 2022 astronomers revealed an image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Today we tell the story of what made this image possible.

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