The Spiral in the Heart of our Galaxy
In the heart of our 100,000 light-year wide spiral Milky Way Galaxy lies a miniature spiral of ionized gas only 10 light-years across. The Very Large Array (VLA) caught this gas in the act of orbiting around the supermassive black hole in the core of our Galaxy.
Credit: (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
| Technical Details | |
|---|---|
| Telescope | VLA |
| Band | C |
| Date | 1982-00-00 |
| Center | RA: 17:42:29.3, Dec: -28:59:18.6 |
| Field of View | 3 x 3 arcminutes |
