Chandra helps confirm evidence of jet in Milky Way's black hole

Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 16:00 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org) —Astronomers have long sought strong evidence that Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is producing a jet of high-energy particles. Finally they have found it, in new results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope.

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