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Record-Breaking Outburst from Milky Way’s Black Hole

Astronomers have detected the largest X-ray flare ever from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This event was 400 times brighter than the usual X-ray output from Sgr A*. The image contains an X-ray movie of the region close to Sgr A* and shows the giant flare, along with much steadier X-ray emission from a nearby magnetar. A magnetar is a neutron star with a strong magnetic field.

Credit: NASA/CXC/Amherst College/D.Haggard et al

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September 14, 2013