More Black Hole Photos

This time, we've managed to image more of accretion disk around the black hole at the center of our own galaxy.

Galaxies are "anchored" by supermassive black holes, which provide the gravity to hold them together. "Our" black hole is called Sagittarius A.

Obviously, this is a false color image. The red is hot gas, the blue is the cooler stuff we haven't managed to snap until now.

Studying our galaxy's gravitational anchor might eventually help us work out why our galaxy is a spiral not a blob, for example.

Plus, more cool black hole images.