Scientists Take First-Ever Image of a Faint Swirling Ring of Hydrogen Around Our Galaxy’s Black Hole

By Yasemin Saplakoglu Astronomers, for the first time, have snapped an image of a cool, gassy ring swirling around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. This ring is part of the so-called accretion disk — stars, dust and gases — that surround most black holes. These materials are held close by …