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Astronomers Planning To Image Milky Way's Central Black Hole

Science · Space · 2012-01-18 11:56 · posted by Unknown · from the the-reality-is-much-much-worse dept. · 68 comments

99luftballon writes "Astronomers are planning the Event Horizon Telescope project in Arizona on Wednesday — and say in three or four years they should be able to image the ring of matter around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The black hole is 26,000 light years away, but should be large enough to check if Einstein got his equations right."