(L to R) Mareki Honma, a professor of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Shoko Koyama, an assistant professor of Niigata University, Kotaro Moriyama, a postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Yutaro Kofuji, a Ph.D. student at the University of Tokyo, pose for a photo during the press conference in Tokyo on May 12, 2022. A global research team, organized by 80 institutes including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration announced that they have succeeded in capturing the first image of the black hole at the centre of Milky Way galaxy at the conference. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )