# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/xiYoqLoaDI
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11737895-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2015-01-07T03:14:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Record-Breaking Outburst from Milky Way's Black Hole: Astronomers have observed the largest X-ray flare ever detected from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This event, detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, raises questions about the behavior of this giant black hole and its surrounding environment.

The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, is estimated to contain about 4.5 million times the mass of our sun.

Image Credit: NASA/CXC/Stanford/I. Zhuravleva et al.

#nasa #space #blackhole #chandra #milkyway #astronomy #xray #aas225 #science

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