Fact Sheet
Hotter Galaxy
Hot stars, clouds of gas, star clusters, and disks of gas around black holes decorate the center of the Milky Way galaxy in this newly released X-ray image from Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The supermassive black hole at the galaxy's heart is in the bright cloud of material at the center of the image. The brightest X-rays, which are produced by the hottest objects, are white. Cooler objects are coded in yellow, orange, red, and blue. The center of the galaxy is about 27,000 light-years away. [NASA/CXC/U.Mass/D.Wang et al]
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