Black Hole

An illustration of how a black hole may appear

At the center of our Milky Way galaxy, near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius, exists a supermassive black hole.

A distant view of Sagittarius A* captured using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. (Photo: NASA)

Milky Way Galaxy

SagittariusA blackhole at the Milky Way center / galacticconnection1, Feb 20, 2019

New map of the night sky reveals 300,000 ‘hidden’ galaxies

This image, produced by the LOFAR radio telescope network, contains nearly 300,000 previously unknown galaxies.

This image, produced by the LOFAR radio telescope network, contains nearly 300,000 previously unknown galaxies. (Photo: LOFAR), an unprecedented feat

This image of our Milky Way, the most detailed ever captured, features some 1.7 billion stars.

This image of our Milky Way, the most detailed ever captured, features some 1.7 billion stars. (Photo: European Space Agency)

A tadpole-shaped jet coming from a sunspot. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center