Summary: <p>On Thursday, May 12th, astronomers announced that they finally had proof of a super massive black hole in The Milky Way after years of speculation. The Event Horizon Telescope Team shared an image of the black hole named Sagittarius A*, which is 4 million times the mass of our sun.</p> <p>We speak with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, professor of physics and astronomy and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire and author of <em>The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred,</em> to talk about Sagittarius A* and the significance of this discovery.</p> <p><em>Music in this Segment by Sarah Mucho: (<a target="_blank" class="c-link" data-stringify-link="https://sarahmucho.bandcamp.com/track/black-hole-sun" data-sk="tooltip_parent" href="https://sarahmucho.bandcamp.com/track/black-hole-sun" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-remove-tab-index="true" tabindex="-1">https://sarahmucho.bandcamp.com/track/black-hole-sun</a>)</em></p>
