The First Picture of the Black Hole at the Milky Way's Heart Has Been Revealed

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May 12, 2022

Black Holes The First Picture of the Black Hole at the Milky Way's Heart Has Been Revealed The historic image of Sagittarius A* is the culmination of a decades-long astronomical quest—and a crucial step toward a new understanding of black holes, gravity and spacetime By Seth Fletcher

Epidemiology What One Million COVID Dead Mean for the U.S.'s Future The country has reached an unthinkably grim milestone. Nearly 200,000 children have lost parents, many more elderly have been killed, and family well-being has been ripped apart By Melody Schreiber

Sex & Gender What the Science on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Kids Really Shows Laws that ban gender-affirming treatment ignore the wealth of research demonstrating its benefits for trans people's health By Heather Boerner

Reproduction How Abortion Restrictions Could Affect Care for Miscarriages The drugs and procedures used to terminate a pregnancy are the same ones used to treat patients for early pregnancy loss or ectopic pregnancies By Charlotte Huff,Kaiser Health News

Black Holes The Black Hole in the Middle of our Galaxy Looks Like This It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of black hole at the middle of our Milky Way. By Seth Fletcher,Jason Drakeford,Tulika Bose,Jeffery DelViscio

Psychology From Designing a House to Editing Text, Sometimes Less Is More Our minds tend to create new stuff by piling on to what's already there, a practice that narrows our thinking By Leidy Klotz

Pollution Declines in Air Pollution Have Made Hurricanes Stronger Without the cooling effect of aerosols, warmer oceans have provided more fuel to storms By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Black Holes How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy's Black Hole It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of black hole at the middle of our Milky Way. By Seth Fletcher,Tulika Bose,Jeffery DelViscio | 03:52

Public Health Is It COVID, or Is It Allergies? Patient history, context and a few symptoms may help distinguish between the conditions By Mariana Lenharo

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 326, Issue 5

FROM THE ARCHIVE At Last, a Black Hole's Image Revealed The Event Horizon Telescope captures one of the universe's most mysterious objects By Lee Billings | April 2019

QUOTE OF THE DAY "We've been working on this for so long that, every once in a while, you have to pinch yourself...This is the black hole at the center of our galaxy!" Katie Bouman, computer scientist and astronomer who co-leads the EHT's imaging working group

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