• New paper in Science, with dumb quote!

    Ok, so I’m still dreadfully behind on updating this page, but I wanted to mention our new paper that came out last week (30 August) in Science: Wang, Nowak, Markoff et al., “Dissecting X-ray–Emitting Gas Around the Center of Our Galaxy”. Here’s the link if you have access otherwise it’s on astroph. The paper is very exciting, from our massive 3Msec campaign with the Chandra X-ray Observatory on the super massive black hole in the center of our Galaxy, Sgr A*. That’s a whopping 35 days of observations on an instrument where in the past we normally would get a few days a year. So in one year we doubled…

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