Astronomers capture first image of Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A*, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration via AP)

The world got a look on Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, including our own, have these giant black holes at their centre, where light and matter cannot escape, making it extremely hard to get images of them.