• Sgr A* flare seen with NuSTAR!!

    I (and members of my group) spend a lot of time thinking about the supermassive black hole in the center of our Galaxy, Sgr A* (see recent group blog post, for instance).   The new hard X-ray imaging mission NuSTAR has just released a really cool series of images showing a hard X-ray flare from Sgr A*!    We have also been monitoring Sgr A* as part of our Chandra X-ray Visionary Program and even caught another flare recently at the same time as them! http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/nustar/multimedia/pia16214.html

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