The new image of the center of the Milky Way galaxy was made using a giant mosaic of data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.
X-rays from Chandra are orange, green, and purple, showing different X-ray energies, and the radio data from MeerKAT are gray. The combination of X-ray and radio views allows us to see the complex movements of magnetic fields in the region.
These threads show us the weather in the region, which is driven by supernova explosions and outbursts of matter near our galaxy’s supermassive black hole.
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang; Radio: NRF/SARAO/MeerKAT
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