An image of the Milky Way’s black hole

Worldwide network: When the researchers collected the data from the centre of the Milky Way in 2017, the Event Horizon Telescope consisted of eight observatories spread across the globe. EHT collaboration Worldwide network: When the researchers collected the data from the centre of the Milky Way in 2017, the Event Horizon Telescope consisted of eight observatories spread across the globe. EHT collaboration - Observation with the Event Horizon Telescope improves our understanding of the processes at the galactic centre It sits deep in the heart of the Milky Way, is 27,000 light years from Earth, and resembles a doughnut. This is how the black hole at the centre of our galaxy appears in the image obtained by researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The team has thus provided evidence that, as suspected, this object belongs to the family of cosmic gravity traps. The radio data from the observatories connected in the worldwide EHT network were obtained from two supercomputers: one at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn and one at the Haystack Observatory in Massachusetts. The Apex telescope of the Bonn Institute and the 30-metre antenna of the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), which belongs to the Max Planck Society, were also involved in the observation.