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At the heart ofÌýourÌýMilky Way galaxy lies a supermassiveÌýblackÌýholeÌýcalled Sagittarius A* that is evolving on the timescale of mere minutes. This talk will present the methods and procedures used to produce the first images of Sagittarius A* as well as discuss future directions we are taking to leverage machine learning to recover additional information, including mapping its evolving environment in 3D. It has been theorized for decades that aÌýblackÌýholeÌýwill leave a "shadow" on a background of hot gas. However, due to its small size, traditionalÌýimagingÌýapproaches require an Earth-sized radio telescope. In this talk, I discuss techniques we have developed to photograph aÌýblackÌýholeÌýusing the Event Horizon Telescope, a network of telescopes scattered across the globe. Recovering an image from this data requires solving an ill-posed inverse problem which necessitates the use of image priors to reduce the space of possible solutions.ÌýImagingÌýSagittarius A* proved especially challenging due to the rapid time-variability that had to be accounted for. Although we have learned a lot from these initial images already, remaining scientific questions motivate us to improve thisÌýcomputationalÌýtelescope to seeÌýblackÌýholeÌýphenomena still invisible to us. In particular, we will discuss approaches we have developed to incorporate data-driven score-based priors into the imaging process to understand the sensitivity of the black hole image to different underlying assumptions. Additionally, we will discuss how we are developing techniques that will allow us to extract the evolving structure ofÌýourÌýown Milky Way'sÌýblackÌýholeÌýover the course of a night. In particular, we introduce OrbitalÌýBlackÌýHoleÌýTomography, which integrates known physics with a neural representation to map evolving flaring emission around theÌýblackÌýholeÌýin 3D for the first time.