The Guardian: "Edge of darkness: looking into the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way"

February 26, 2017

"The Milky Way’s great black hole is 25,000 light years distant, surrounded by dense clusters of stars, shrouded by interstellar dust and, like all other black holes, incapable of emitting light.

Yet scientists believe they will soon be able to take a photograph of this interstellar behemoth – an extraordinarily ambitious feat that will involve the creation of a radio telescope that has the effective size of our entire planet and whose operation will involve scientists from four continents."

"Edge of darkness: looking into the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way" by Robin McKie for The Guardian

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