Astronomers Spot Mysterious Flash From Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole

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3 min readAug 12, 2019

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by Ryan Whitwam

You don’t usually think of a supermassive black hole as something that can go unnoticed, but many of these interstellar monsters are quite placid. For instance, Sagittarius A* (pronounced “Sagittarius A Star”) in the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. It’s usually very dim, but astronomers recently saw Sagittarius A*…

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