On 12 May 2022 the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration revealed the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy, about 27,000 light years away and four million times the mass of the Sun. The glowing ring is smaller than that of M87 and flickered rapidly, making the imaging much harder. The result confirmed that a compact object lurks there, as suggested by decades of tracking stars orbiting it. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez received the 2020 Nobel Prize for that work.
Before and after
- 8 April 2022Kramatorsk railway station attack
- 10 April 20222022 French presidential election
- 18 April 2022Battle of Donbas
- from 4 May 2022 to 11 May 20232022–2023 mpox outbreak
- 12 May 2022The first image of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
- 15 May 20222022 Buffalo shooting
- from 23 May 2022 to 2 October 2022Battle of Lyman
- 24 May 2022Robb Elementary School shooting
- 22 June 2022June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake
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- 24 April 1990Launch of Hubble Space Telescope
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