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We report the detection of the two-dimensional structure of the radio source associated with the Galactic Center black hole, Sagittarius A*, obtained from Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations at a wavelength of 7mm. The intrinsic…

Flares from the supermassive black hole in our Galaxy, Sagittarius~A$^\star$ (Sgr A$^\star$), are routinely observed over the last decade or so. Despite numerous observational and theoretical efforts, the nature of such flares still remains…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Ya-Ping Li , Feng Yuan , Q. Daniel Wang

The electromagnetic counterpart to the Galactic center supermassive black hole, Sgr A*, has been observed in the near-infrared for over 20 years and is known to be highly variable. We report new Keck Telescope observations showing that Sgr…

The extended X-ray emission observed in the direction of several molecular clouds in the central molecular zone of our Galaxy exhibits spectral and temporal properties consistent with the X-ray echo scenario. This concept postulates that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Ildar Khabibullin , Eugene Churazov , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Philip Kaaret , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Frédéric Marin , Rashid Sunyaev , Jiri Svoboda , Alexey Vikhlinin , Thibault Barnouin , Chien-Ting Chen , Enrico Costa , Laura Di Gesu , Alessandro Di Marco , Steven R. Ehlert , William Forman , Dawoon E. Kim , Ralph Kraft , W. Peter Maksym , Giorgio Matt , Juri Poutanen , Paolo Soffitta , Douglas A. Swartz , Ivan Agudo , Lucio Angelo Antonelli , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolo Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Stefano Ciprini , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Niccolò Di Lalla , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovciak , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Fabio Muleri , Michela Negro , Chi-Yung Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel Lawrence Peirson , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgro , Patrick Slane , Gloria Spandre , 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

We present the result of 6 years monitoring of SgrA*, radio source associated to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. Single dish observations were performed with the Itapetinga radio telescope at 7 mm, and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-11-01 Pedro Paulo B. Beaklini , Zulema Abraham

We present a study of the X-ray flaring activity of Sgr A* during all the 150 XMM-Newton and Chandra observations pointed at the Milky Way center over the last 15 years. This includes the latest XMM-Newton and Chandra campaigns devoted to…

The near-infrared emission from the black hole at the Galactic center (Sgr A*) has unique properties. The most striking feature is a suggestive periodic sub-structure that has been observed in a couple of flares so far. Using near-infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Meyer , R. Schoedel , A. Eckart , W. J. Duschl , V. Karas , M. Dovciak

The detection of a mm/Sub-mm ``bump'' in Sgr A*'s radio spectrum suggests that at least a portion of its overall emission is produced within a compact accretion torus. This inference is strengthened by observations of strong linear…

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

(Abridged) We report results from a comprehensive study of the nearby M dwarf Proxima Centauri with the XMM-Newton satellite. We find strongly variable coronal X-ray emission, with flares ranging over a factor of 100 in peak flux. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Guedel , M. Audard , F. Reale , S. L. Skinner , J. L. Linsky

We report on the polarized light curves of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, obtained at millimeter wavelength with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The observations took place as a part of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-22 Maciek Wielgus , Monika Moscibrodzka , Jesse Vos , Zachary Gelles , Ivan Marti-Vidal , Joseph Farah , Nicola Marchili , Ciriaco Goddi , Hugo Messias

The rapidly varying (~10 minute timescale) non-thermal X-ray emission observed from Sgr A* implies that particle acceleration is occuring close to the event horizon of the supermassive black hole. The TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1745-290 is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , F. Aharonian

The Galactic center provides a unique astrophysical laboratory for us to study various astrophysical processes. In this paper, we review and outline the latest results from observations of Sgr~A$^*$ in terms of source structure and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Feng Yuan , Jun-Hui Zhao

The interaction between the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, and its accretion disk occasionally produces high-energy flares seen in X-ray, infrared, and radio. One proposed mechanism that produces…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-18 Aviad Levis , Andrew A. Chael , Katherine L. Bouman , Maciek Wielgus , Pratul P. Srinivasan

We have performed monitoring observations of the 3-mm flux density toward the Galactic Center compact radio source Sgr A* with the Australia Telescope Compact Array since 2005 October. Careful calibrations of both elevation-dependent and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-07-22 Juan Li , Zhi-Qiang Shen , Atsushi Miyazaki , Lei Huang , R. J. Sault , Makoto Miyoshi , Masato Tsuboi , Takahiro Tsutsumi

Sagittarius A* exhibits regular variability in its multiwavelength emission, including daily X-ray flares and roughly continuous near-infrared (NIR) flickering. The origin of this variability is still ambiguous since both inverse Compton…

A cold neutral and extremely dim accretion disk may be present as a remnant of a past vigorous activity around the black hole in our Galactic Center (GC). Here we discuss ways to detect such a disk through its interaction with numerous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergei Nayakshin , Rashid Sunyaev , .

The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Galaxy flares at least daily in the infrared (IR) and X-ray bands, yet the process driving these flares is still unknown. So far detailed analysis has only been performed on a few bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-29 Salome Dibi , Sera Markoff , Renaud Belmont , Julien Malzac , Joey Neilsen , Gunther Witzel

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) exhibits frequent flaring activity across the electromagnetic spectrum, often associated with a localized region of strong emission, known as a hot spot. We aim to establish an empirical relationship linking key…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 A. I. Yfantis , D. C. M. Palumbo , M. Mościbrodzka

Over the last decade, X-ray observations of Sgr A* have revealed a black hole in a deep sleep, punctuated roughly once per day by brief flares. The extreme X-ray faintness of this supermassive black hole has been a long-standing puzzle in…

S. D. von Fellenberg et al. (2025a, Paper I) reported the first mid-infrared detection of a flare from Sgr A*. The JWST/MIRI/MRS observations were consistent with an orbiting hotspot undergoing electron injection with a spectrum that…