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English: There are many complex structures located at the center of our Galaxy, many of which Chandra has observed through X-rays. The general area around the Milky Way's center is known as "Sagittarius A". Within that, there are two components known as "Sgr A East" and "Sgr A West". Astronomers think that Sgr A East (large, dotted ellipse) may be the remnant of a supernova that exploded thousands of years ago. Sgr A West (smaller, solid ellipse) is a spiral-shaped group of gas streamers that might be falling into "Sgr A*", the name of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
This Chandra image of Sgr A* and the surrounding region was made from a 164 hours of observation time over a two-week period. During this time the black hole flared up in X-ray intensity half a dozen or more times. The cause of these outbursts is not understood, but the rapidity with which they rise and fall indicates that they are occurring near the event horizon, or point of no return, around the black hole. Also discovered were more than two thousand other X-ray sources and huge lobes of 20 million-degree Centigrade gas (the red loops in the image at approximately the 2 o'clock and 7 o'clock positions). The lobes indicate that enormous explosions occurred near the black hole several times over the last ten thousand years. Scale: Image is 8.4 arcmin per side |
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Source | https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2003/0203long/more.html |
Author | Credit: NASA/CXC/MIT/F.K.Baganoff et al. |
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Credit/Provider | NASA/CXC/MIT/F.K.Baganoff et al. |
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Headline | This image of Sgr A* was made from the longest X-ray exposure of that region to date. |
Source | Chandra X-ray Observatory |
Author | Chandra X-ray Observatory Center |
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Date and time of data generation | 6 January 2003 |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Software used | GIMP 2.10.36 |
File change date and time | 21:53, 20 January 2024 |
Color space | sRGB |
Exif version | 2.21 |
Image width | 1,140 px |
Image height | 1,140 px |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:8c93bce9-80f3-4d79-815c-f8572544b986 |
Keywords | Sagittarius A*; Galactic Center |
Contact information | cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA |
IIM version | 2 |