Gaze into the Milky Way’s black hole with NASA’s ‘back catalog’ of X-ray data

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million ...
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It sounds like something out of a movie, but NASA says it’s real—the black hole in the Milky Way that is about to wake up

We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...
Scientific American

The Milky Way’s Central Black Hole May Have Appeared Shockingly Different Just a Few Hundred Years Ago

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

Milky Way's massive black hole spaghettified filament of gas

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Journey to center of Milky Way with upcoming NASA Roman core survey

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...
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Black Hole’s wild youth; the genome’s soft spot; AI gives sodium batteries a shortcut

New evidence reveals the Milky Way’s black hole once erupted, genes hide mutation hot spots, and AI accelerates sodium ...
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Milky Way's central black hole may have scarfed down another black hole

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. - ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the ...

Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole imagery transformed into sound

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...
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Astronomers spot a massive 'sleeping giant' black hole less than 2,000 light-years from Earth

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass that ...
Phys.org

The Milky Way's black hole is hiding an explosive past, evidence suggests

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space telescope shows that might not always have been the case. Sagittarius A*, located ...
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See 1st image of Milky Way’s huge black hole

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The world’s first image of the chaotic ...