by A new image from the MeerKAT telescope at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) in Cape Town, South Africa, shows radio emission from numerous phenomena, including outbursting stars, stellar nurseries, and the chaotic region around Sagittarius A*, the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole that lurks in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, 25,000 light-years from Earth.
“The inner 652-light-year region of the Galaxy contains a supermassive black hole, significant quantities of molecular gas, and star formation and cosmic ray energy densities that are roughly two orders of magnitude higher than the corresponding levels in the Galactic disk,” said Dr. Ian Heywood from the University of Oxford, Rhodes University, and SARAO, and his colleagues.
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“The inner 652-light-year region of the Galaxy contains a supermassive black hole, significant quantities of molecular gas, and star formation and cosmic ray energy densities that are roughly two orders of magnitude higher than the corresponding levels in the Galactic disk,” said Dr. Ian Heywood from the University of Oxford, Rhodes University, and SARAO, and his colleagues.
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