Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
The central region of the Milky Way galaxy is an exotic region crammed with massive stars, long threads of magnetic fields and dense clouds of gas orbiting rapidly around the Galactic Center.
The supernova, 26,000 ly away, is expanding at ~3.2 million km/h and is at least ~1,700 years old.
Here is another image of the chaotic beauty surrounding the center of our Galaxy taken by the MeerKAT radio telescope.
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole. The closeup of the giant molecular cloud Sagittarius C was taken by JWST.
The huge vertical filamentary structures are shaped by magnetic fields. The strong magnetic fields play a role in suppressing star formation.
The bubble-like structures are remnants of supernovas that exploded over millennia.
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/milky-way-center-meerkat-and-webb/
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Steve Bellovin
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