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The first ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way may not be as accurate as it initially seemed, a new study claims.
"Our image is slightly elongated in the east-west direction, and the eastern half is brighter than the western half," study lead author Miyoshi Makoto, an astronomer at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan , said in a statement."We hypothesize that the ring image resulted from errors during EHT's imaging analysis and that part of it was an artifact, rather than the actual astronomical structure.
The imaging process was time-consuming for a number of reasons. Firstly, plasma whips around the black hole's accretion disk at a remarkable speed, taking mere minutes to make a complete orbit. Earth's location at the edge of the Milky Way also meant the researchers had to use a supercomputer to filter out interference from the huge number of stars, gas and dust clouds strewn between our planet and Sagittarius A*.
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