First Look at Milky Way Monster in High-Energy X-ray Light
These images, taken by NASA black-hole hunter, NuSTAR, 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.
- Date
- 2012-10-23
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"First Look at Milky Way Monster in High-Energy X-ray Light" (2012-10-23). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA16213Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 16411.
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