The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is spinning rapidly and altering space-time around it, a new study has found. Space-time is the four-dimensional continuum that ...
27,000 light-years: Sagittarius A*'s distance from our Solar System 4 million solar masses: Sgr A*'s mass 6 million kilometres: the radius of Sgr A*'s event horizon 240 million years: the time it ...
Chris Impey receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Sagittarius A* sits at the the center of our Milky Way galaxy, in the direction of the Sagittarius constellation. For decades, ...
Sagittarius A*, pronounced "Sagittarius A star," is a supermassive black hole located at the center of our spiral galaxy, the Milky Way. In 2008, astronomers Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez showed ...
The galactic center harbors Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), a supermassive black hole whose existence was inferred from the unusual orbits of nearby stars before its 2022 imaging by the Event Horizon ...
Astronomers have captured the first view of polarized light and the magnetic fields that surround Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milly Way. The new EHT ...