Black Hole Formation & How Sagittarius A* Black Hole Imgaged

Black Holes are fascinating objects resulting from the death of larger stars. I will present an outline of black hole structure, behavior and detection. We will also focus recent headlines of how an image of the 4 million solar mass black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A*, was obtained using the Event Horizon Telescope. Finally, we will compare & contrast the image of M87’s central black hole from 2019, with Sgr A*.

Speaker: Awanish Mishra

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