been unable to see the milky way's central super massive black hole directly be inferred its existence from the motion of the stars orbiting around it. the event horizon telescope has spent two years gathering signals from the black hole at the center of our galaxy the telescope is actually a global network of synchronized radio observatories the coordinated with atomic clocks to synchronize them and all that data is combined after the fact into what's called a correlator and that correlator as ultimately produces data that can be constructed into an image and that image will be the first time astronomers and the rest of us earthlings will have a direct visual representation of a black hole along with the powerful gamma radiation that it emits as it gobbles up matter a burst so strong and so final astronomers call it the death scream of a doomed. fascinating stuff amnesty international today reports