Monsters do not always reveal themselves.
This deep new image of the center of our galaxy notably does NOT show the supermassive black hole at the center of the frame, as massive as 4 million Suns. You have to look more closely to see it & what it's doing.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2610a/ #space #science #nature
Infrared studies of the center of our galaxy reveal stars & newfound gas blobs racing around the hidden central object. That makes it possible to measure the mass & location of the supermassive black hole behind it all.
https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202555808 #space #science #nature #astronomy
STARS ORBITING MILKY WAY BLACK HOLE
Corey S Powell
Scale Theory