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Illinois astronomers help capture first image of Milky Way's black hole

05/16/22

Congratulations to Prof. Gammie and his team as part of the international collaboration that just released the first image of the accretion disk surrounding the supermassive Black Hole at the center of our Galaxy. It's a great achievement. Read about it here.

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