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We present Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) 1.3 mm measurements of the radio source located at the position of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), collected during the 2017 April 5--11 campaign. The observations were carried…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-16 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Observations of bright and variable "reflected" X-ray emission from molecular clouds located within inner hundred parsec of our Galaxy have demonstrated that the central supermassive black hole, Sgr A*, experienced short and powerful flares…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-18 E. Churazov , I. Khabibullin , R. Sunyaev , A. Vikhlinin , G. Ponti , C. Federrath , S. Walch

A large radio outburst from Sgr A* was observed during the VLA weekly monitoring program at 2 cm, 1.3 cm and 7 mm, nearly coincident with the brightest X-ray flare detected to date with the XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory on 2002-10-03. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jun-Hui Zhao , R. M. Herrnstein , G. C. Bower , W. M. Goss , S. M. Liu

In recent years, near-IR and X-ray flares have been detected from the Galaxy's central radio point source, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), believed to be a \~3.10^6 solar masses supermassive black hole. In some cases, the transient emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michel Tagger , Fulvio Melia

The Galactic Center black hole Sgr A* shows significant variability and flares in the submillimeter, infrared, and X-ray wavelengths. Owing to its exquisite resolution in the IR bands, the GRAVITY experiment for the first time spatially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 David Ball , Feryal Özel , Pierre Christian , Chi-Kwan Chan , Dimitrios Psaltis

We address a question whether the observed light curves of X-ray flares originating deep in galactic cores can give us independent constraints on the mass of the central supermassive black hole. To this end we study four brightest flares…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-18 G. D. Karssen , M. Bursa , A. Eckart , M. Valencia-S. , M. Dovciak , V. Karas , J. Horak

The relatively rapid spatial and temporal variability of the X-ray radiation from some molecular clouds near the Galactic center shows that this emission component is due to the reflection of X-rays generated by a source that was luminous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Maïca Clavel , R. Terrier , A. Goldwurm , M. R. Morris , G. Ponti , S. Soldi , G. Trap

The super-massive 4 million solar mass black hole (SMBH) SgrA* shows flare emission from the millimeter to the X-ray domain. The nucleus of the Milky Way has properties (stellar cluster, young stars, molecular gas and an accreting SMBH)…

Starting in 2006, Swift has been targeting a region of ~21'X21' around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) with the onboard X-ray telescope. The short, quasi-daily observations offer an unique view of the long-term X-ray behavior of the supermassive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Degenaar , J. M. Miller , J. Kennea , N. Gehrels M. T. Reynolds , R. Wijnands

We report the results of multi-epoch observations of Sgr A* with VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA) at 43 GHz, carried out from 2004 to 2008. We detected a time variation of flux at 11 % level and intrinsic size at 19 %. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Kazunori Akiyama , Rohta Takahashi , Mareki Honma , Tomoaki Oyama , Hideyuki Kobayashi

[truncated] In Spring 2007, we observed SgrA* with XMM with a total exposure of ~230ks. We have performed timing and spectral analysis of the new X-ray flares detected during this campaign. To study the range of flare spectral properties,…

Context. Magnetically arrested disks are among the most suitable candidates for describing the gas accretion and observed emission in the vicinity of supermassive black holes. Aims. This work aims to provide a direct correlation between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-02 Eleni Antonopoulou , Argyrios Loules , Antonios Nathanail

Reflection of X-ray emission on molecular clouds in the inner $\sim$ 100 pc of our Galaxy reveals that, despite being extremely quiet at the moment, our supermassive black hole Sgr A* should have experienced bright flares of X-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Ildar Khabibullin , Eugene Churazov , Rashid Sunyaev

PAPER WITHDRAWN. The recent detection of Sgr A* in the X-ray band, together with the radio polarization measurements conducted over the past few years, offer the best constraints yet for understanding the nature of the emitting gas within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fulvio Melia , Siming Liu , Marco Fatuzzo

The center of the Milky Way Galaxy hosts a $\sim$4 million solar mass black hole (Sgr A$^*$) that is currently very quiescent with a luminosity many orders of magnitude below those of active galactic nuclei. Reflection of X-rays from Sgr…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Frédéric Marin , Eugene Churazov , Ildar Khabibullin , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Laura Di Gesu , Thibault Barnouin , Alessandro Di Marco , Riccardo Middei , Alexey Vikhlinin , Enrico Costa , Paolo Soffitta , Fabio Muleri , Rashid Sunyaev , William Forman , Ralph Kraft , Stefano Bianchi , Immacolata Donnarumma , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Teruaki Enoto , Iván Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolò Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Niccolò Di Lalla , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovciak , Steven R. Ehlert , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Adam Ingram , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Philip Kaaret , Vladimir Karas , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Michela Negro , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , Gloria Spandre , Doug Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane

The recent detection of variable infrared emission from Sagittarius A*, combined with its previously observed flare activity in X-rays, provides compelling evidence that at least a portion of this object's emission is produced by nonthermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Siming Liu , Vahe' Petrosian , Fulvio Melia

The center of our galaxy hosts Sagittarius~A*, a supermassive compact object of $\sim 4.3\times 10^6$ solar masses, usually associated with a black hole. Nevertheless, black holes possess a central singularity, considered unphysical, and an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Nicolas Aimar , João Luís Rosa , Hanna Liis Tamm , Paulo Garcia

We report the results from recent observations of Sgr A* at short-/sub-millimeter wavelengths made with the partially finished Sub-Millimeter Array (SMA) on Mauna Kea. A total of 25 epochs of observations were carried out over the past 15…

We report the first detection of the Galactic Centre massive black hole, Sgr~A*, in the far infrared. Our measurements were obtained with PACS on board the \emph{Herschel} satellite at $100~\mathrm{\mu m}$ and $160~\mathrm{\mu m}$. While…

Large-amplitude Sgr A* near-infrared flares result from energy injection into electrons near the black hole event horizon. Astrometry data show continuous rotation of the emission region during bright flares, and corresponding rotation of…

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