# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CdddRYzub3z
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11732899-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-05-12T13:49:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Take a good look: this is the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
 
This groundbreaking image of Sagittarius A* was taken by the ehtelescope team with data from telescopes around the world. After the EHT's iconic image of M87*, released in 2019, this is only the second time a supermassive black hole has been directly observed with its shadow.
 
The gas in the glowing orange ring surrounds the black hole's event horizon, a boundary from which nothing can escape. The ring is created by light bending in the intense gravity around Sagittarius A*, which has a mass some four million times greater than our Sun.
 
The second image, which takes a wider look at the space around Sagittarius A*, includes data contributed by several NASA missions. The orange specks and purple tendrils were captured in infrared light by nasahubble, and the blue clouds represent data from our orbiting nasachandraxray observatory.
 
Image #1 credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
Image #2 credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; IR: NASA/HST/STScI. Inset: Radio (EHT Collaboration)
 
#Space #BlackHole #EHT #NSF #NASA #Astrophotography #Sagittarius #Hubble #MilkyWay #Galaxy #EventHorizonTelescope

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1, blackhole, sagittarius, nsf, nasa, hubble, astrophotography, 2, space, eht, milkyway, galaxy, eventhorizontelescope

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