
This artist concept illustrates the frenzied activity at the core of our Milky Way galaxy. The galactic center hosts a supermassive black hole in the region known as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, with a mass of about four million times that of our sun.
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NASA ID
PIA17009
Date Created
May 7, 2013
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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