Galactic centre. Coloured composite Chandra X-ray telescope image of the centre of our galaxy,the Milky Way. The image is colour-coded to show the energy of radiation: red is low energy,green is medium and blue is high. This image is 400 by 900 light years and Galactic centre lies around 25,000 light years from Earth. It contains a supermassive black hole (in bright white region,centre),as well as other X-ray sources such as white dwarf and neutron stars (coloured dots). The X-ray data reveals high temperature gases (around 10 million degrees Celsius) escaping into the rest of the galaxy,carrying elements released by star death | |
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