#minispiral — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #minispiral, aggregated by home.social.
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The Galactic Center | Azimuth
It turns out the center of our galaxy is a wild and woolly place! Besides a #black #hole 4 million times the mass of our Sun, it’s full of young #clusters of stars, #supernova #remnants, #molecular #clouds, weird #filaments of gas, and more.
The #Galactic #Center is in the constellation of Sagittarius, abbreviated ‘Sgr’.
Sgr A contains the supermassive black hole called Sgr A*, which is worth a whole article of its own.
Surrounding that is the #Minispiral: a three-armed spiral of dust and gas falling into the black hole at speeds up to 1000 kilometers per second...
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2023/03/24/the-galactic-center/