RA: The existence of black holes supports our interpretation of gravity. Why are black holes like Sagittarius A* significant to us? Supermassive black holes are the largest, with a mass of millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun. RA: A black hole is a region in space that has such an intense gravitational pull that nothing, not even light, can escape it. He modeled and simulated the plasma physics of Sagittarius A* that helped make the image possible.ДЄnantua sat down with UTSA Today to delve further into black holes and the importance of studying these mysteries that are lightyears away. The first image was released in 2019, depicting the black hole at the center of the M87* galaxy.ДЄnantua, a theoretical astrophysicist in the UTSA College of Sciences, specializes in reverse engineering near-horizon supermassive black hole observations. This is just the second time in history that a black hole image has been captured. That team, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, is an international research group that uses its worldwide network of radio telescopes and a technique called interferometry to capture high-resolution data as if it were one Earth-size telescope.

J-В UTSA physics professor Richard Anantua was part of a team of astronomers who recently unveiled the first-ever image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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