Tuesday, October 23, 2012

NuSTAR Spots Flare From Milky Way's Black Hole


NuSTAR Spots Flare From Milky Way's Black Hole

These are the first, focused high-energy X-ray views of the area surrounding the supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A*, at the center of our galaxy. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA's newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has caught its first look at the giant black hole parked at the center of our galaxy. The observations show the typically mild-mannered black hole during the middle of a flare-up.

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