The stunning panorama was compiled using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.
Images also documented an X-ray thread known as G0.17-0.41 that researchers say suggests a mechanism that could control the energy flow, and even the evolution of the Milky Way.
“The galaxy is like an ecosystem,” University of Massachusetts Amherst astronomer Daniel Wang explained in a statement. “We know the centers of galaxies are where the action is and play an enormous role in their evolution.”
Our own galaxy is hard to study as it is obscured by a fog of…
