This Startling Image of Our Galaxy’s Center Hints at a New Cosmic Phenomenon – ScienceAlert

The center of the Milky Way is a strange and wild place.
There dwells our galactic nucleus – a supermassive black hole 4 million times the mass of the Sun, a beast named Sgr A*. It’s probably the most extreme environment in our galaxy, dominated by Sgr A*’s gravitational and magnetic fields.
It’s also very hard to see into, even though it’s only 25,800 light-years away: The region is shrouded by thick clouds of dust and gas that obscure some wavelengths of light. But if we use technology to tweak…

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