Tag Archive for 'Sagittarius C'

Hundreds of thousands of stars are contained in this image of the Sagittarius C region from ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Image credit: ESO / F. Nogueras-Lara.

Sagittarius C Region Contains Hundreds of Thousands of Solar Masses of Young Stars: Study

Feb 12, 2024 by Natali Anderson

Sagittarius C lies just 300 light-years from Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Hundreds of thousands of...

An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of Sagittarius C from Webb’s NIRCam instrument. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Samuel Crowe, University of Virginia.

Webb Spots Huge Cluster of Protostars in Milky Way’s Center: Sagittarius C

Nov 20, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Sagittarius C lies approximately 300 light-years from Sagittarius A*, the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. An estimated...

A schematic view of the history of the accretion disk and the flyby object: the three plots starting from the bottom left are snapshots from the numerical simulation, capturing the system right at the flyby event, 4,000 years after, and 8,000 years after, respectively; the top right image is from the ALMA observations, showing the disk with spirals and the two objects around it, corresponding to the system at 12,000 years after the flyby event. Image credit: Lu et al., doi: 10.1038/s41550-022-01681-4.

ALMA Images Spiral Protostellar Disk near Milky Way’s Center

Jun 21, 2022 by News Staff

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have discovered a massive accretion disk with two spiral arms around a 32-solar-mass...