Comment by ck2

there's a serious group of astrophysicists that actually disagree the photo was assembled properly at all

long paper made short I think their carefully demonstrated argument is it's a machine-learning hallucination to see what we want

Dr. Becky has excellent coverage of it, will link it in a moment when I find it

here it is, well worth watching:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U6bvR6SzMo

Miyoshi, Kito & Makino (2024; claim the Sag A* image is wrong)

* https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/534/4/3237/7660988