Sagittarius A* – The Monster at the Milky Way's Heart

Podcast: Talking Science · Stavros kinnas

Opublikowano: 2026-10-08

On a clear, dark night, away from city lights, the Milky Way arcs overhead as a soft river of stars — and buried in the dense, glowing crowd of that river's centre sits something almost too strange to picture: a supermassive black hole roughly four million times heavier than our Sun, compressed into a region smaller than the orbit of Mercury. This episode follows the decades-long detective story that revealed it, from patiently tracked stars swinging around an invisible point, to the 2020 Nobel Prize, to the blurry orange ring released to the world in 2022 as the first image of our ow...