He had never seen the center of our galaxy with so much wonder and amazement.
What you see reproduced above (and which we advise you to see by expanding it) is an image of extraordinary violence that reveals the complex world around which we too, in the solar system, rotate incessantly.
At a safe distance, for: 26,000 light years.
Impressive are some close-ups of the spaces below and above the galactic plane never before seen with such precision.
Summing up the observations of the space telescope Chandra of NASA and the South African radio telescope MeerKat (370 collected in the last twenty years) the astronomer Daniel Wang | of the University of Massachusetts Amherst composed details and swirls that animate the prey region a gigantic forces and very high temperatures.
It is the latter that generate the rivers of X-rays that the astronomical satellite Chandra around the Earth since 1999 has recorded, revealing phenomena some so far unclear, others unknown.
To generate the spectacular cosmic firework are above all the duels triggered by magnetic fields that emanate from phenomena, in particular around the super-massive black hole active in the heart Sagittarius A.
The imposing monster, continually devouring the surrounding matter, provokes X-ray jets that shake the surrounding regions triggering inevitable effects in intergalactic space.
Other black holes, neutron stars and supernova remnants, i.e. remains there after the death of a star, are scattered around.
What we see in the photo a violent and exceptionally energetic ecosystem at the heart of our star islandWang said, presenting the fruit of his year-long work while forced home by the pandemic, just published in the Monthly Notices of the British Royal Astronomical Society.
The multicolored tapestry that Wang reconstructed woven with the very hot threads of gas that are continuously intertwined with moving bands of magnetic fields.
The plumes of gas extend for 700 light years above and below the galactic plane, confronting the Fermi bubbles which reach up to 25,000 light years. But from the enormous chaos that dominates the scenario, a new world also emerges because new stars are also born from the continuous interactions of gas. And galactic evolution, like this, continues.