Image: Cloudlets swarm around our local supermassive black hole
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 07:20
in Astronomy & Space
This image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) shows the area surrounding Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole that lurks at the centre of the Milky Way—highlighted here with a small circle. New research has revealed exciting evidence of interstellar gas and dust orbiting the black hole at high speeds.