Conor Feehly is a New Zealand-based science writer. He has earned a master's in science communication from the University of Otago, Dunedin. His writing has appeared in Cosmos Magazine, Discover Magazine and ScienceAlert.
This image shows invisible infrared and X-ray wavelengths of light that have been translated into visible-light colors.Ever since astronomers first laid their eyes on the sparkling spiral arms of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, they have wondered what processes might drive the evolution of these massive, star-studded structures.
But even still, one telescope wouldn’t capture the whole picture — which is why the team's proposal suggests using a number of other telescopes to support the JWST's findings. , the European Space Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope, and Japan’s JASMINE astrometry satellite. The proposed multi-epoch survey would collect data on the Galactic Center at one, five and 10 year intervals.
"Sgr. A* is a quiescent black hole and appears to have acquired most of its mass in the past," Rainer Schödel, an astronomer from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia in Spain and first author of the paper, told Space.com.
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