Shep Doeleman: How the Event Horizon Telescope caught the Milky Way’s MONSTER Black Hole! (#229)

European Southern Observatory (ESO) released groundbreaking new
Milky Way results from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
(EHT). Today I speak to Shep Doeleman Founding Director of the
Event Horizon Telescope about. what it all means! You can watch the
press conference on ESO's YouTube channel
https://youtu.be/rIQLA6lo6R0 and watch my breakdown of everything
you need to know! Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the
supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.
This result provides overwhelming evidence that the object is
indeed a black hole and yields valuable clues about the workings of
such giants, which are thought to reside at the center of most
galaxies. The image was produced by a global research team called
the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, using observations
from a worldwide network of radio telescopes. The image is a
long-anticipated look at the massive object that sits at the very
center of our galaxy. Scientists had previously seen stars orbiting
around something invisible, compact, and very massive at the center
of the Milky Way. This strongly suggested that this object—known as
Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*, pronounced "sadge-ay-star")—is a black
hole, and today’s image provides the first direct visual evidence
of it. Although we cannot see the black hole itself, because it is
completely dark, glowing gas around it reveals a telltale
signature: a dark central region (called a “shadow”) surrounded by
a bright ring-like structure. The new view captures light bent by
the powerful gravity of the black hole, which is four million times
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