Galactic Center

The nucleus of the Milky Way Galaxy observed with the VLA at 1.3 cm at an angular resolution of 0.1 arcsec. Sgr A* (a compact radio source), located in the middle of this image, is believed to be associated with the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. The extended emission surrounding Sgr A* is the hot ionized gas within the central 16 arcsec region or 2 light years in linear scale. The psuedo-color scale indicates the radiation intensity.

This image was made from A and B array data at 1.3 cm.

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Legacy Astronomical Image

Sgr A

Jun-Hui Zhao, W. M. Goss

Jun-Hui Zhao, W. M. Goss

Very Large Array (VLA)

1992-01-19

continuum

K

1.2 cm

22 GHz

RA 17:45:40.050, Dec: -29:0:28.000 (J2000)

0.004444 x 0.004444 degrees

Galactic Sources Series

Galactic Center Unit