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May 12, 2022

This is the first photograph of Sagittarius A* the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. This is the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this black hole. Until now, it has been recognized for its influence on the stars close to it. The black hole was imaged using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array that joined together eight existing radio observatories around Earth to create one virtual "Earth-sized" telescope. The telescope is named after the event horizon, a nickname for the boundary of the black hole beyond which no light can escape. Credit: EHT Partnership

Astronomers reveal for the first time a "radio image" of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way

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First image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy Sagittarius A* (Sagittarius Ai Kochav) which until now has been studied for its effect on other stars, this time we can see its event horizon. Photographed by the Ofek Al-Havain partnership which connected eight radio observatories into one radio telescope the size of the Earth
IBM quantum scientist Dr. Maika Takita at the IBM Quantum Lab at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Photo PR

IBM marks a goal: a practical quantum computer with hundreds of thousands of qubits in a few years

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As part of its roadmap for the quantum era, the computing giant will introduce a quantum processor with 433 qubits this year, a processor with over a thousand qubits next year, and a processor with more than 2025 qubits and parallel work capacity in 4,000 - to take quantum computing out of the laboratory and into the practical world

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