The First Picture of the Black Hole at the Milky Way's Heart Has Been Revealed

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May 13, 2022

Black Holes The First Picture of the Black Hole at the Milky Way's Heart Has Been Revealed The historic image of Sagittarius A* is the culmination of a decades-long astronomical quest—and a crucial step toward a new understanding of black holes, gravity and spacetime By Seth Fletcher

Black Holes The Black Hole in the Middle of our Galaxy Looks Like This It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of black hole at the middle of our Milky Way. By Seth Fletcher,Jason Drakeford,Tulika Bose,Jeffery DelViscio

Black Holes How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy's Black Hole It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of black hole at the middle of our Milky Way. By Seth Fletcher,Tulika Bose,Jeffery DelViscio | 03:52

Privacy Yes, Phones Can Reveal if Someone Gets an Abortion To protect personal information from companies that sell data, some individuals are relying on privacy guides instead of government regulation or industry transparency By Sophie Bushwick

Energy Rechargeable Molten Salt Battery Freezes Energy in Place for Long-Term Storage The technology could bring more renewable energy to the power grid By Anna Blaustein

Epidemiology A Guide to the Different Omicron Subvariants How to tell the different versions of SARS-CoV-2 apart, and how well vaccines protect against them By Louis Jacobson,Kaiser Health News

Reproduction The Harmful Effects of Overturning Roe v. Wade A landmark study of women who were turned away from getting the procedure found that being forced to have a child worsened their health and economic status. By Tanya Lewis,Tulika Bose | 06:06

Public Health Is It COVID, or Is It Allergies? Patient history, context and a few symptoms may help distinguish between the conditions By Mariana Lenharo

Particle Physics God, Dark Matter and Falling Cats: A Conversation with 2022 Templeton Prize Winner Frank Wilczek The physics Nobelist and author has not exactly found religion—but that doesn't mean he's stopped looking By Zeeya Merali

Animals Two-Headed Worms Tell Us Something Fascinating about Evolution Researchers looked back at more than 100 years of research and found that a fascination with annelids with mixed up appendages was strong—and that research still has relevance today. By Ashleigh Papp | 06:08

Cosmology New Record-Breaking Simulation Sheds Light on 'Cosmic Dawn' THESAN—the largest, most detailed computer model of the universe's first billion years yet made—is helping set expectations for observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope By Charles Q. Choi

Climate Change Air-Conditioning Should Be a Human Right in the Climate Crisis We need to protect vulnerable people from killer heat without destroying the environment By Rose M. Mutiso,Morgan D. Bazilian,Jacob Kincer,Brooke Bowser

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 326, Issue 5

BRING SCIENCE HOME Make Your Own Spring Scale Why guess a weight when you can make a scale? Learn how some scales use a spring to measure the mass of objects--and build your very own! Credit: George Retseck Have you ever played with a Slinky, used a pinball machine, written with a click pen or ridden in a car? If so, then you have made use of a spring! Springs are in machines all around us and have many useful purposes. In this activity you will learn another cool use for a spring: making a scale to weigh objects.

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