Science
First Ever Image Of The Black Hole At The Heart Of Milky Way Galaxy
- The mystery has been solved on 12 May 2022; the first picture of the black hole has been released by 'Event Horizon Telescope' Collaboration - an international working group of astronomers who have networked a series of arrays of telescopes across the planet.
Black Hole at the Centre of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Interestingly, an year after Einstein came up with General Theory of Relativity, in 1916 came the famous Schwarzschild solution describing a non-rotating, spherical black hole. Einstein was not much enthusiastic about black holes.
Chandrasekhar is not the only Indian name associated with pioneering blackhole research. Unfortunately, self-effacing Raychaudhuri, for whom teaching and theoretical researches were passion, is not well known outside the community of black hole researchers.
Perhaps this momentous occasion of a global workforce of physicists obtaining the image of the black hole at the galactic centre of our Milky Way, the Government of India should honour the memory of this great physicist by awarding him posthumously the highest or the second highest civilian award of India.
The webpage of the EHT group website announcing the discovery informs us this:
While in the case of LIGO in 2016 Modi government okayed a joint operated observatory in Maharashtra with 220 hectares of land, another important science project Neutrino Observatory has run into trouble with the Dravidianist Luddite government in Tamil Nadu.
