The first image of the Milky Way’s central black hole and the unique enhancement Africa could offer future tests of gravity

Roger Deane; Iniyan Natarajan

doi:10.17159/sajs.2022/14332

The first image of the Milky Way’s central black hole and the unique enhancement Africa could offer future tests of gravity

Authors

Roger Deane 1.Wits Centre for Astrophysics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; 2.Department of Physics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1027-5043
Iniyan Natarajan Wits Centre for Astrophysics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8242-4373

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2022/14332

Keywords:

astronomy, black holes, Event Horizon Telescope, South Africa, Global South science

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2022-07-28

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Deane, R., & Natarajan, I. (2022). The first image of the Milky Way’s central black hole and the unique enhancement Africa could offer future tests of gravity. South African Journal of Science, 118(7/8). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2022/14332

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Vol. 118 No. 7/8 (2022)

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Invited Commentary

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