Seen in polarised light for the first time, the image above is of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way—or, rather, the magnetic field around its shadow.
Pronounced "Sagittarius-A-star" and abbreviated as Sgr A*, the new nomenclature stuck. But its nature as a black hole took another quarter-century to prove. Infrared and submillimeter observations ...
Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiralling from its edge ...
The Milky Way hosts its own supermassive black hole at its center known as Sagittarius A* (pronounced “ay star”) that is more than four million times as massive as our sun. The tiniest members ...
The Milky Way has its own supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. Main sequence stars (like our Sun) make up about 90% of the stars in the sky. When they die, main sequence stars up to ...
First-Ever Magnetic Map of Milky Way’s Black Hole Reveals a Mystery Polarized light from Sagittarius A*, our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, shows swirling magnetic fields that may hint at ...