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JOHANNESBURG, July 15 (Xinhua) – The clearest radio image of the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way was captured by a super telescope in South Africa, local media reported.
produced by the super MeerKAT radio telescope, has a black hole that measures 4 million times the mass of the sun and is 25,000 light-years from Earth.
The center of the Milky Way is known to be buried by gas and dust and invisible from the earth using ordinary telescopes. It is also full of unexplained phenomena.
"This image is remarkable," said Farhad Yusef-Zade, a prominent specialist in enigmatic filamentary structures at Northwestern University in the United States. The recent image has shown compact sources associated with structures that could help solve the puzzle of three decades, he said.
The MeerKAT telescope is a local South African project unveiled Friday by Vice President David Mabuza. It consists of 64 dishes and has a total cost of 330 million US dollars. Finally, it is designed to integrate with Square Kilometer Array, a multinational radio telescope project that aims to include some 3000 dishes.
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