Did a black hole appear in the Milky Way?

“We saw what we thought was invisible,” Doelman said at the time. This photograph is now kept in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

An uninformed bet is that the team has now managed to produce an image of Arch A*, our doom cake. If Dr. Shepherd’s team sees the “invisible” again, the achievement will reveal much about how the galaxy operates and what unfolds in its dark recesses.

The results could be startling and informative, said Jana Levine, a gravity theorist at Barnard College at Columbia University, who was not part of the project. “I am not yet bored with images of black holes,” she said.