Seeing the Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole with New Eyes

Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 18:21 in Astronomy & Space

At the center of our Milky Way galaxy lies a cosmic beast called Sagittarius A*. This supermassive black hole packs about four million sun-masses into a volume roughly the size of our solar system. Recently, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope began exploring this exotic object. The telescope has observed a great many cosmic phenomena, from galaxy […]

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