New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...
Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way has long looked quiet, a dim and seemingly dormant presence compared with the blazing monsters in distant galaxies. New X-ray observations ...
Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...
The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...
The JWST field (cyan rectangle) shown on a MeerKAT radio continuum image centered at 1.28 GHz (I. Heywood et al. 2022). While most NTFs, such as the Sgr C NTF, run orthogonal to Galactic plane, the ...
A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this strange place holds thousands of newborn stars, huge clouds of gas, and ...
TL;DR: The James Webb Space Telescope observed Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center, revealing flares from its accretion disk. The world's most powerful space ...
This understanding changed when Dikerby and his team pointed XRISM toward a large gas cloud near the galactic center.
In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars. Sagittarius C is one of ...