Tag: Supermassive black hole bubble

[ad_1] Astronomers have discovered a hot gas bubble swirling around a supermassive black hole known as the Sagittarius A*. Did you know that there is a black hole located at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy? Nearly 26,000 light years away at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole which could potentially one day swallow the whole Milky Way Galaxy. The first image of this supermassive black hole was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope in May. The supermassive black hole has huge amounts of gas around it. Now, astronomers have spotted a hot gas bubble swirling around the supermassive black hole. The discovery was made with the help of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) located in the Antofagasta Region of the Atacama ...