
Originally Posted by
antoniseb
I had thought that they were going to do Sgr A* as their first target. M87's is 1/3 the angular diameter of our central black hole. I am guessing this means that Sgr A* is too inactive to produce an interesting telltale image.
Hurray for the EHT team for their huge effort to get this image!
It sounds like Sgr A* is next on the list nonetheless, using essentially the same techniques.
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