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The image of the Sgr A* black hole is an average of the different images the EHT Collaboration has extracted from its 2017 observations.  In addition to other facilities, the EHT network of radio observatories that made this image possible includes the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) in the Atacama Desert in Chile, co-owned and co-operated by ESO is a partner on behalf of its member states in Europe.HHICC_PROFILE lcmsmntrRGB XYZ )9acspAPPL-lcms desc^cprt\ wtpthbkpt|rXYZgXYZbXYZrTRC@gTRC@bTRC@descc2textFBXYZ -XYZ 3XYZ o8XYZ bXYZ $curvck ?Q4!)2;FQw]kpz|i}0C     C  XX",1!aA"Qb2RBq$!1QAa2" ? ڀ XCB+@@0JD|FK ]! 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