The first image of a black hole in the Milky Way has excited the space technology world.

It's not the first time a black hole has been photographed, but it's the first one in our galaxy... about 27,000 light years away and weighing 4 million times the mass of our sun.

It prompted Millsy at Midday host Steve Mills to ask listeners what they would chuck in a black hole, after speaking to Australian astronomer-at-large Fred Watson about the remarkable achievement.

The first image of a black hole in the Milky Way has excited the space technology world.
It's not the first time a black hole has been photographed, but it's the first one in our galaxy... about 27,000 light years away and weighing 4 million times the mass of our sun.
It prompted Millsy at Midday host Steve Mills to ask listeners what they would chuck in a black hole, after speaking to Australian astronomer-at-large Fred Watson about the remarkable achievement.

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