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Calculated Shard: 149 (from laksa046)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa149.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://apnews.com/article/black-hole-milky-way-image-e482ee7b773b1053bcb296bbd9abea16\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://apnews.com/article/black-hole-milky-way-image-e482ee7b773b1053bcb296bbd9abea16\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/black-hole-milky-way-image-e482ee7b773b1053bcb296bbd9abea16","crawl_time":1776513564,"first_indexed_time":1652362616,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,apnews!\/article\/black-hole-milky-way-image-e482ee7b773b1053bcb296bbd9abea16 s443","src_root_hash":"13170802201813479149","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"First image of black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy captured | AP News","meta_descriptions":["Astronomers have unveiled the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]\nPublished 9:05 PM GMT, May 12, 2022\nWASHINGTON (AP) — The world’s first image of the chaotic supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy doesn’t portray a voracious cosmic destroyer but what astronomers Thursday called a “gentle giant” on a near-starvation diet.\nAstronomers believe nearly all galaxies, including our own, have these giant black holes at their bustling and crowded center, where light and matter cannot escape, making it extremely hard to get images of them. Light gets bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust.\nThe colorized image unveiled Thursday is from an international consortium behind the Event Horizon Telescope, a collection of eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. Getting a good image was a challenge; previous efforts found the black hole too jumpy.\n“It burbled and gurgled as we looked at it,” the University of Arizona’s Feryal Ozel said.\nShe described it as a “gentle giant” while announcing the breakthrough along with other astronomers involved in the project. The picture also confirms Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity: The black hole is precisely the size that Einstein’s equations dictate. It is about the size of the orbit of Mercury around our sun.\nBlack holes gobble up galactic material but Ozel said this one is “eating very little.” It’s the equivalent to a person eating a single grain of rice over millions of years, another astronomer said.\n“Pictures of black holes are the hardest thing to think about,” said astronomer Andrea Ghez of the University of California, Los Angeles. She wasn’t part of the telescope team bu\nt earned a Nobel Prize\nfor the discovery of the Milky Way’s black hole in the 1990s.\nShe said the image of “my baby” is exactly how it should be — an eerie-looking orange-red ring with utter blackness in the middle.\nScientists had expected the Milky Way’s black hole to be more violent, especially since the only other image from another galaxy shows a far bigger and more active black hole.\n“It is the cowardly lion of black holes,” said project scientist Geoffrey C. Bower of Taiwan’s Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics.\nBecause the black hole “is on a starvation diet” so little material is falling into the center, and that allows astronomers to gaze deeper, Bower said.\nThe Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A (with an asterisk denoting star). It’s near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations and is 4 million times more massive than our sun. Bower said it is probably more typical of what’s at the center of most galaxies, “just sitting there doing very little.”\nSign up for Morning Wire:\nOur flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day.\nEmail address\nBy checking this box, you agree to AP's\nTerms of Use\nand acknowledge that AP may collect and use your data pursuant to our\nPrivacy Policy\n.\nIt is incredibly hot, trillions of degrees, Ozel said.\nThe same\ntelescope group released the first black hole image\nin 2019. The picture was from a galaxy 53 million light-years away that is 1,500 times bigger than the one in our galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is much closer, about 27,000 light-years away. A light year is 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers).\nTo get the picture, the eight telescopes had to coordinate so closely “in a process similar to everyone shaking hands with everyone else in the room,” said astronomer Vincent Fish of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\nAstronomers worked with data collected in 2017 to get the new images. The next step is a movie of one of those two black holes, maybe both, Fish said.\nThe project cost nearly $60 million with $28 million coming from the U.S. National Science Foundation.\nEven though it is quieter than expected, the center of the Milky Way is an important place to study, Ghez said.\nIt’s “like an urban downtown, everything is more extreme. It’s crowded. Things move fast,” Ghez said in an interview. “We live out in the suburbs (in a spiral arm of the galaxy). Things are calm out here.”\n___\nFollow Seth Borenstein on Twitter at\n@borenbears\n___\nThe Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.","attrs_markdown":"[Enable accessibility](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/black-hole-milky-way-image-e482ee7b773b1053bcb296bbd9abea16)\n\n[![AP Logo](https:\/\/assets.apnews.com\/19\/66\/bc546486408c8595f01753a9fbeb\/ap-logo-176-by-208.svg)](https:\/\/apnews.com\/)\n\nMenu\n\n- [World](https:\/\/apnews.com\/world-news)\n  \n  SECTIONS\n  \n  [Iran war](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran) [Russia-Ukraine war](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine) [Español](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/noticias) [China](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/china) [Asia Pacific](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/asia-pacific) [Latin America](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america) [Europe](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/europe) [Africa](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/africa)\n  \n  TOP STORIES\n  \n  - [Iranian gunboats fire on tanker in Strait of Hormuz as Iran reimposes restrictions](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-iran-war-israel-hormuz-18-april-2026-ab475cb979825b956a10d60103026b37)\n  - 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All Rights Reserved.\n\nlive [Iran war](https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/iran-war-israel-trump-04-18-2026)\n\n[Foreign surveillance program](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/congress-foreign-surveillance-fisa-spy-agencies-3dc3e84c3b9b03f52b84dfb3b01fc770)\n\n[Garret Anderson dies](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/garret-anderson-dies-5129ae839e84c676dfb38c4a6a65197e)\n\n[Natalie Portman](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/natalie-portman-pregnant-tanguy-destable-6544fe6426bad24f9b875ebd84b0cc32)\n\n[Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sue-bird-megan-rapinoe-breakup-podcast-4653e0ae13410fafe04612f11af363a8)\n\n# Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way’s huge black hole\n## Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way’s huge black hole\n![This image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Thursday, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A\\*, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. It is 4 million times more massive than our sun. The image was made by eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration via AP)](https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/e0fd061\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3000x3000+0+0\/resize\/599x599!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.googleapis.com%2Fafs-prod%2Fmedia%2Fb3c039b3b58c456fa8dd5107d69a40c3%2F3000.jpeg)\n\n1 of 2 \\|\n\nThis image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Thursday, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A\\*, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. It is 4 million times more massive than our sun. The image was made by eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration via AP)\n\nRead More\n\n![This image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Thursday, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A\\*, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. It is 4 million times more massive than our sun. The image was made by eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration via AP)](https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/ff2a999\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3000x2000+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.googleapis.com%2Fafs-prod%2Fmedia%2Fba9cc8af1c674e549594d91b52d6b926%2F3000.jpeg)\n\n2 of 2 \\|\n\nThis image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Thursday, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A\\*, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. It is 4 million times more massive than our sun. The image was made by eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. 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Light gets bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust.\n\nThe colorized image unveiled Thursday is from an international consortium behind the Event Horizon Telescope, a collection of eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. Getting a good image was a challenge; previous efforts found the black hole too jumpy.\n\n“It burbled and gurgled as we looked at it,” the University of Arizona’s Feryal Ozel said.\n\nShe described it as a “gentle giant” while announcing the breakthrough along with other astronomers involved in the project. The picture also confirms Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity: The black hole is precisely the size that Einstein’s equations dictate. It is about the size of the orbit of Mercury around our sun.\n\nBlack holes gobble up galactic material but Ozel said this one is “eating very little.” It’s the equivalent to a person eating a single grain of rice over millions of years, another astronomer said.\n\n“Pictures of black holes are the hardest thing to think about,” said astronomer Andrea Ghez of the University of California, Los Angeles. She wasn’t part of the telescope team bu [t earned a Nobel Prize](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/didier-queloz-nobel-prizes-james-peebles-stockholm-planets-23b9457068a91d40468bbdce34826c2f) for the discovery of the Milky Way’s black hole in the 1990s.\n\nShe said the image of “my baby” is exactly how it should be — an eerie-looking orange-red ring with utter blackness in the middle.\n\nScientists had expected the Milky Way’s black hole to be more violent, especially since the only other image from another galaxy shows a far bigger and more active black hole.\n\n“It is the cowardly lion of black holes,” said project scientist Geoffrey C. Bower of Taiwan’s Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics.\n\nBecause the black hole “is on a starvation diet” so little material is falling into the center, and that allows astronomers to gaze deeper, Bower said.\n\nThe Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A (with an asterisk denoting star). It’s near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations and is 4 million times more massive than our sun. Bower said it is probably more typical of what’s at the center of most galaxies, “just sitting there doing very little.”\n\n**Sign up for Morning Wire:** Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day.\n\nIt is incredibly hot, trillions of degrees, Ozel said.\n\nThe same [telescope group released the first black hole image](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/05d573dd29924452a491431922d22e61) in 2019. The picture was from a galaxy 53 million light-years away that is 1,500 times bigger than the one in our galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is much closer, about 27,000 light-years away. A light year is 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers).\n\nTo get the picture, the eight telescopes had to coordinate so closely “in a process similar to everyone shaking hands with everyone else in the room,” said astronomer Vincent Fish of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n\nAstronomers worked with data collected in 2017 to get the new images. The next step is a movie of one of those two black holes, maybe both, Fish said.\n\nThe project cost nearly \\$60 million with \\$28 million coming from the U.S. National Science Foundation.\n\nEven though it is quieter than expected, the center of the Milky Way is an important place to study, Ghez said.\n\nIt’s “like an urban downtown, everything is more extreme. It’s crowded. Things move fast,” Ghez said in an interview. “We live out in the suburbs (in a spiral arm of the galaxy). 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Light gets bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust.\n\nThe colorized image unveiled Thursday is from an international consortium behind the Event Horizon Telescope, a collection of eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. Getting a good image was a challenge; previous efforts found the black hole too jumpy.\n\n“It burbled and gurgled as we looked at it,” the University of Arizona’s Feryal Ozel said.\n\nShe described it as a “gentle giant” while announcing the breakthrough along with other astronomers involved in the project. The picture also confirms Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity: The black hole is precisely the size that Einstein’s equations dictate. It is about the size of the orbit of Mercury around our sun.\n\nBlack holes gobble up galactic material but Ozel said this one is “eating very little.” It’s the equivalent to a person eating a single grain of rice over millions of years, another astronomer said.\n\n“Pictures of black holes are the hardest thing to think about,” said astronomer Andrea Ghez of the University of California, Los Angeles. She wasn’t part of the telescope team bu [t earned a Nobel Prize](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/didier-queloz-nobel-prizes-james-peebles-stockholm-planets-23b9457068a91d40468bbdce34826c2f) for the discovery of the Milky Way’s black hole in the 1990s.\n\nShe said the image of “my baby” is exactly how it should be — an eerie-looking orange-red ring with utter blackness in the middle.\n\nScientists had expected the Milky Way’s black hole to be more violent, especially since the only other image from another galaxy shows a far bigger and more active black hole.\n\n“It is the cowardly lion of black holes,” said project scientist Geoffrey C. Bower of Taiwan’s Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics.\n\nBecause the black hole “is on a starvation diet” so little material is falling into the center, and that allows astronomers to gaze deeper, Bower said.\n\nThe Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A (with an asterisk denoting star). It’s near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations and is 4 million times more massive than our sun. Bower said it is probably more typical of what’s at the center of most galaxies, “just sitting there doing very little.”\n\n**Sign up for Morning Wire:** Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day.\n\nIt is incredibly hot, trillions of degrees, Ozel said.\n\nThe same [telescope group released the first black hole image](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/05d573dd29924452a491431922d22e61) in 2019. The picture was from a galaxy 53 million light-years away that is 1,500 times bigger than the one in our galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is much closer, about 27,000 light-years away. A light year is 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers).\n\nTo get the picture, the eight telescopes had to coordinate so closely “in a process similar to everyone shaking hands with everyone else in the room,” said astronomer Vincent Fish of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n\nAstronomers worked with data collected in 2017 to get the new images. The next step is a movie of one of those two black holes, maybe both, Fish said.\n\nThe project cost nearly \\$60 million with \\$28 million coming from the U.S. National Science Foundation.\n\nEven though it is quieter than expected, the center of the Milky Way is an important place to study, Ghez said.\n\nIt’s “like an urban downtown, everything is more extreme. It’s crowded. Things move fast,” Ghez said in an interview. “We live out in the suburbs (in a spiral arm of the galaxy). 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Boilerpipe Text	Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Published 9:05 PM GMT, May 12, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — The world’s first image of the chaotic supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy doesn’t portray a voracious cosmic destroyer but what astronomers Thursday called a “gentle giant” on a near-starvation diet. Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, including our own, have these giant black holes at their bustling and crowded center, where light and matter cannot escape, making it extremely hard to get images of them. Light gets bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. The colorized image unveiled Thursday is from an international consortium behind the Event Horizon Telescope, a collection of eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. Getting a good image was a challenge; previous efforts found the black hole too jumpy. “It burbled and gurgled as we looked at it,” the University of Arizona’s Feryal Ozel said. She described it as a “gentle giant” while announcing the breakthrough along with other astronomers involved in the project. The picture also confirms Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity: The black hole is precisely the size that Einstein’s equations dictate. It is about the size of the orbit of Mercury around our sun. Black holes gobble up galactic material but Ozel said this one is “eating very little.” It’s the equivalent to a person eating a single grain of rice over millions of years, another astronomer said. “Pictures of black holes are the hardest thing to think about,” said astronomer Andrea Ghez of the University of California, Los Angeles. She wasn’t part of the telescope team bu t earned a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Milky Way’s black hole in the 1990s. She said the image of “my baby” is exactly how it should be — an eerie-looking orange-red ring with utter blackness in the middle. Scientists had expected the Milky Way’s black hole to be more violent, especially since the only other image from another galaxy shows a far bigger and more active black hole. “It is the cowardly lion of black holes,” said project scientist Geoffrey C. Bower of Taiwan’s Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Because the black hole “is on a starvation diet” so little material is falling into the center, and that allows astronomers to gaze deeper, Bower said. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A (with an asterisk denoting star). It’s near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations and is 4 million times more massive than our sun. Bower said it is probably more typical of what’s at the center of most galaxies, “just sitting there doing very little.” Sign up for Morning Wire: Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Email address By checking this box, you agree to AP's Terms of Use and acknowledge that AP may collect and use your data pursuant to our Privacy Policy . It is incredibly hot, trillions of degrees, Ozel said. The same telescope group released the first black hole image in 2019. The picture was from a galaxy 53 million light-years away that is 1,500 times bigger than the one in our galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is much closer, about 27,000 light-years away. A light year is 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers). To get the picture, the eight telescopes had to coordinate so closely “in a process similar to everyone shaking hands with everyone else in the room,” said astronomer Vincent Fish of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Astronomers worked with data collected in 2017 to get the new images. The next step is a movie of one of those two black holes, maybe both, Fish said. The project cost nearly $60 million with $28 million coming from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Even though it is quieter than expected, the center of the Milky Way is an important place to study, Ghez said. It’s “like an urban downtown, everything is more extreme. It’s crowded. Things move fast,” Ghez said in an interview. “We live out in the suburbs (in a spiral arm of the galaxy). Things are calm out here.” ___ Follow Seth Borenstein on Twitter at @borenbears ___ The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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It is 4 million times more massive than our sun. The image was made by eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration via AP)](https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/e0fd061/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x3000+0+0/resize/599x599!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.googleapis.com%2Fafs-prod%2Fmedia%2Fb3c039b3b58c456fa8dd5107d69a40c3%2F3000.jpeg) 1 of 2 \\| This image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Thursday, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A\, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. It is 4 million times more massive than our sun. The image was made by eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration via AP) Read More ![This image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Thursday, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. 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Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, including our own, have these giant black holes at their bustling and crowded center, where light and matter cannot escape, making it extremely hard to get images of them. Light gets bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. The colorized image unveiled Thursday is from an international consortium behind the Event Horizon Telescope, a collection of eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. Getting a good image was a challenge; previous efforts found the black hole too jumpy. “It burbled and gurgled as we looked at it,” the University of Arizona’s Feryal Ozel said. She described it as a “gentle giant” while announcing the breakthrough along with other astronomers involved in the project. The picture also confirms Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity: The black hole is precisely the size that Einstein’s equations dictate. It is about the size of the orbit of Mercury around our sun. Black holes gobble up galactic material but Ozel said this one is “eating very little.” It’s the equivalent to a person eating a single grain of rice over millions of years, another astronomer said. “Pictures of black holes are the hardest thing to think about,” said astronomer Andrea Ghez of the University of California, Los Angeles. She wasn’t part of the telescope team bu [t earned a Nobel Prize](https://apnews.com/article/didier-queloz-nobel-prizes-james-peebles-stockholm-planets-23b9457068a91d40468bbdce34826c2f) for the discovery of the Milky Way’s black hole in the 1990s. She said the image of “my baby” is exactly how it should be — an eerie-looking orange-red ring with utter blackness in the middle. Scientists had expected the Milky Way’s black hole to be more violent, especially since the only other image from another galaxy shows a far bigger and more active black hole. “It is the cowardly lion of black holes,” said project scientist Geoffrey C. Bower of Taiwan’s Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Because the black hole “is on a starvation diet” so little material is falling into the center, and that allows astronomers to gaze deeper, Bower said. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A (with an asterisk denoting star). It’s near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations and is 4 million times more massive than our sun. Bower said it is probably more typical of what’s at the center of most galaxies, “just sitting there doing very little.” Sign up for Morning Wire: Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. It is incredibly hot, trillions of degrees, Ozel said. The same [telescope group released the first black hole image](https://apnews.com/article/05d573dd29924452a491431922d22e61) in 2019. The picture was from a galaxy 53 million light-years away that is 1,500 times bigger than the one in our galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is much closer, about 27,000 light-years away. A light year is 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers). To get the picture, the eight telescopes had to coordinate so closely “in a process similar to everyone shaking hands with everyone else in the room,” said astronomer Vincent Fish of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Astronomers worked with data collected in 2017 to get the new images. The next step is a movie of one of those two black holes, maybe both, Fish said. The project cost nearly \$60 million with \$28 million coming from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Even though it is quieter than expected, the center of the Milky Way is an important place to study, Ghez said. It’s “like an urban downtown, everything is more extreme. It’s crowded. Things move fast,” Ghez said in an interview. “We live out in the suburbs (in a spiral arm of the galaxy). Things are calm out here.” \_\_\_ Follow Seth Borenstein on Twitter at [@borenbears](https://twitter.com/borenbears) \_\_\_ The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content. [![SETH BORENSTEIN](https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/9c3a961/2147483647/strip/true/crop/439x439+0+0/resize/100x100!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F40%2F2f%2F055b174f44048b835cb88882cfd8%2Fborenstein-seth.PNG)](https://apnews.com/author/seth-borenstein) [SETH BORENSTEIN](https://apnews.com/author/seth-borenstein) Borenstein is an Associated Press science writer, covering climate change, disasters, physics and other science topics. He is based in Washington, D.C. 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