Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*): The Black Hole at the center of the Milky Way. Photographed for the first time.

(Image:  NASA 2022)

I have always been fascinated by Black Holes, the ultimate devours of information and light, to which nothing can escape.  Although scientists have tried to determine if information is completely destroyed by these mysterious entities, which are abound throughout the Universe.  The dilemma of studying the physics of a black hole, is whether the radiation being sucked into its abyss, which is made up of information, is all but obliterated.  To which the late physicist Stephen Hawking's theory in trying to solve the Information Paradox of black holes suggested, that information is stored around the Event Horizon of a black hole, therefore not completely destroyed.  Yet, the ultimate question remains.  If a black hole with its devouring engines rid, if you get close enough, all matter and information. Whether it is either stored as a scattered mess or removed from the Universe altogether.  Where does it go?

The answer.  Nobody knows.  But, according to Quantum physics it's an impossibility that infornation can be decimated in a black hole, as atoms are broken down into sub particles and sub particles cannot be destroyed.  But, alas no one knows for sure and the information paradox keeps the tantalizing prospect open, that a Black Hole does indeed destroy everything within its bottomless pit.

One thing we do know as certainty is that all Black Holes reside at the center of all Elliptical, Lenticular and Spiral galaxies, such as our Milky Way, which has a super massive black hole at its locus known as  Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)  .  And recently scientists have photographed Sgr A* at the Milky Way Centre using the Event Horizon Telescope, made up as an array of 13 telescopes globally.   And in 2019. the EHT array was able to capture for the first time a black hole from Elliptical galaxy Messier 87, an incredible feat considering that black holes are are Stygian monsters which suck in light (they don't reflect it) and in most cases are surrounded by clouds of dust and debris.  Which, as we all know and are aware, light is essential for photographic images in creating details.  Messier 87, although was not an easy accomplishment, was brighter and more distinct than Sgr A*  despite this colossal behemoth at our Milky Way center, equivalent to 4.3 million Suns, it is much fainter and slower in devouring what lies closer to its Event Horizon.  Contending  also an interference from the Earth's oceans that absorb submillimeter radio waves to which the EHT array relies, it took four years in piecing together plethora of  images of Sgr A* together .  

The image above shows Sagittarius A*, which holds and binds are spiral galaxy together, formed 13. 7 billion years ago when our Universe and the millions of Galaxies and solar systems began to evolve