Through the National Geographic Institute

Ministry of Public Works takes part in scientific project to obtain clear images of the black hole at centre of our galaxy

2019.1.21

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After 20 years of attempts by the scientific community, an international team of astronauts, including the technical participation of the IGN, has managed to obtain a clear image of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, known as SgrA*, with unprecedented resolution and quality.

The ALMA telescope, located in northern Chile, was used for the project, the most sensitive telescope in the world at frequencies as high as those used in other radio telescopes including those at Yebes Observatory (Guadalajara), which belongs to the IGN, and of the Millimetre Radio Astronomy Institute, co-owned by the IGN and located in Granada. Both observatories are classified as Singular Spanish Scientific-Technical Infrastructures (Spanish acronym: ICTS) due to the quality of their families and the work carried on there.

It is hoped that future observations of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy will shortly provide important and crucial information on the processes and the dynamics of the area surrounding the black hole, which will lead to greater understanding of what are acknowledged as the most exotic objects in the known universe today.

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