There'sa dragon dozing in the Milky Way's core. Hidden from sight by our galaxy's dusty disk, a supermassive black hole sleeps fitfully. Sometimes a cloud of gas might whisk around its nostrils or a star fall on its head and make the dragon snort a bit of flame, thenC Carlisle...
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Here’s how it works. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Wisconsin/Y.Bai. et al.) When the monster back hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy belched out an exceptionally high number of powerful...
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Milky Way plane means that dust obscures those that are more than a few thousandlight-yearsfrom the Sun. Byanalogywith open clusters in external galaxies similar to the Galaxy, it is surmised that they follow the general distribution ofintegratedlight in the Galaxy, except that there are ...
Astronomers have discovered powerful "twisted" magnetic fields spiraling around the black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way, the European Southern Observatorysaid Wednesday. A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) for the first time showed in polarized light a ring o...
Milky way black hole image: Is this the first black hole image? The recently released image of black hole in our milky way is not the first image of black hole. The first one was released in 2019 by the same group and it was from a galaxy 53 million li...
A growing body of evidence, including observations that produced the first image of Sagittarius A*, is starting to reveal the inner workings of our Galaxy’s core.
Here’s how it works. A compilation of Swift telescope observations of the center of the Milky Way, where a supermassive black hole lurks. (Image credit: Natalie Degenaar) A giant gas cloud is set to spiral into the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's core in the next few ...
particular wavelength of light which is given off when hydrogen gas ionizes and which can reach all the way to Earth. They were able to detect these radio signals and use this data to produce the first image of the gas disk, as well as seeing how the gas rotates around the black hole...