Tag Archive for 'G1'

This VLT image shows the stars and gas surrounding Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: ESO / D. Ribeiro, MPE GC Team.

VLT Discovers Third Gas Cloud near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

Mar 10, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were all expelled by a pair of massive stars...

An artist’s rendering shows G-objects, with the reddish centers, orbiting the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. The black hole is represented as a dark sphere inside a white ring (above the middle of the rendering). Image credit: Jack Ciurlo.

Astronomers Spot Four New G-Objects near Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

Jan 17, 2020 by News Staff

At the center of our Milky Way Galaxy lurks Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole that is four million times the mass of the Sun. Recently, two unusual...