Sagitarius A*: Glows With Echoes

[photo: Chandra X-Ray space telescope courtesy of NASA. Sagittarius A-star (A*).]

Sagittarius A*: Glows With Echoes
Orb-like flashes of X-rays from over a 100 years into the star's [citation: black holes are types of stars] ... past. As Sagittarius A-star eats debris planetoids and other stars X-rays get released, start flying around the black hole and cloud 100 light years wide.

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