Black holes are among the most profound predictions of Einsteins theory of general relativity.
This means there is now overwhelming evidence for the black hole, dubbed Sagittarius A*.
Sagittarius A* also seems rather inactive it is not devouring a lot of matter from its surroundings.
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ALMA one of the Event Horizon telescopes.
To aphysicistthis is important.
Relativity has been around for a century and it is still proving to be accurate.
I think even Einstein himself might have been surprised by that!
When I first saw the image, I thought: this tells us a lot.
I couldnt wait to start writing about it and interpreting the image.
We had a lot of meetings to come to a consensus of what it tells us.
To begin with, we were meeting face to face in different parts of the world.
Then COVID struck and suddenly nobody could go anywhere.
So online meetings became the norm, as in every other aspect of life.
This definitely slowed us down.
In addition, I was a contributing author for all six papers.
This had its challenges, as I had to deal with every typo and every mistake in the typesetting.
Anyway, we got there in the end and the dazzling result was worth all of the work.
