Can we learn about fundamental physics in the extreme environment of the Galactic Center?

May 17, 2021 ... An artist's impression of the thick disc in the middle of the Milky Way. Credit: ESO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kornmesser/R. Hurt, CC BY 4.0. Jul 7, 2022 ... It was when we went to sleep and in the middle of the night my buddy @kochimachan woke me up and got me out of the tent in pitch darkness and ... Dec 14, 2020 ... Astronomers spotted the two gargantuan bubbles of charged particles ballooning out from the middle of our home galaxy. ... created a never before seen picture of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Share This. March 27, 2024 ... A comparison of the black ... Feb 18, 2025 ... ... middle of our galaxy ... This artist's concept portrays the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A* ... The image is presented in Galactic coordinates, with the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy horizontal across the middle and the Galactic center at the center. Both bright and dark filamentary clouds can be seen, many of which harbor stellar nurseries. The plane of the Milky Way's flat disk is apparent as the main, ... Dec 20, 2024 ... The closest star to our Sun is about four light-years away. In the center of the galaxy, stars are only 0.4 to 0.04 light-years apart. In the ... Nov 18, 2015 ... astronomers have suggested that too much gamma-ray light is shining from the Milky Way's core—more than all the known sources of light can ... Apr 5, 2018 ... After years of prediction and accumulating information, astrophysicists have unveiled the first evidence of a black hole village—and it ...