by Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, an astronomer from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst has mapped the central region of our Milky Way Galaxy.
“The galaxy is like an ecosystem,” said Professor Daniel Wang, an astronomer in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
“We know the centers of galaxies are where the action is and play an enormous role in their evolution.”
“And yet, whatever has happened in the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy is hard to study, despite its relative proximity to Earth, because it is obscured by a dense fog of gas and dust.”
The team’s findings give the clearest picture yet of a pair of X-ray-emitting plumes that are emerging from the region near the massive black hole lying at the center of our Galaxy.
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“The galaxy is like an ecosystem,” said Professor Daniel Wang, an astronomer in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
“We know the centers of galaxies are where the action is and play an enormous role in their evolution.”
“And yet, whatever has happened in the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy is hard to study, despite its relative proximity to Earth, because it is obscured by a dense fog of gas and dust.”
The team’s findings give the clearest picture yet of a pair of X-ray-emitting plumes that are emerging from the region near the massive black hole lying at the center of our Galaxy.
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