NASA has given space fans an unprecedented look at the violent black hole at the centre of our galaxy.<\/p>\n
A fascinating picture published by the space agency shows the ominous object slap bang in the middle of the Milky Way.<\/p>\n
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The image was captured using Nasa's orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory last year butwas featured as Nasa's Astronomy Picture of The Day on Monday.<\/p>\n
The various colours are the different types of light emitted by the mysterious region, which is 26,000 light years from Earth.<\/p>\n
Green and blue regions are high-energy X-ray emissions picked up by Chandra, while red sections are low-energy radiation captured by MEERKAT, a ground-based telescope in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Nasa said in yesterday's post: \"This enigmatic region... glows in every type of light that we can see.\"<\/p>\n
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Just to the right of the colourful central region lies Sagittarius A (Sag A), the supermassive black hole in the middle of our galaxy.<\/p>\n
Sag A weighs about four million times the mass of the Sun and is more than 13million miles wide.<\/p>\n
\"Hot gas surrounds Sag A, as well as a series of parallel radio filaments known as the Arc, seen just left of the image centre,\" Nasa wrote.<\/p>\n
\"Many stars orbit in and around Sag A, as well as numerous small black holes and dense stellar cores known as neutron stars and white dwarfs.\"<\/p>\n
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Last year, scientists unveiled the first ever picture of a black hole.<\/p>\n
The black hole, described by scientists as a \"monster\", is 24billion miles across - 3million times the size of the Earth.<\/p>\n
Sitting about 300 million trillion miles away from our planet, it was photographed by a network of eight telescopes across the globe known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).<\/p>\n
When used together, the telescopes combine with the power of a single telescope \"the size of our planet\", scientists said.<\/p>\n
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What do you think of the Nasa photo? Let us know in the comments...<\/p>\n
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