If the center of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole, why is the center of the Milky Way the brightest part of every photograph of it?

Question

Wouldn’t it be, you know, a big black spot?

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Answer 1

because the bright spot at the center of the galaxy is roughly across in any direction made of a bunch of orbiting stars. And the blackhole is only 14 million miles across.

Galaxies are HUGE