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The Galactic Center black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is a prime observing target for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which can resolve the 1.3 mm emission from this source on angular scales comparable to that of the general…

Episodically accreting black holes are thought to produce flares when a chunk of particles is accelerated to high velocity near the black hole horizon. This also seems to be the case of Sagittarius A* in the Galactic Center, where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 V. Karas , M. Dovciak , A. Eckart , L. Meyer

We present the results of a 3.3-year project to monitor the flux density of Sagittarius A* at 2.0, 1.3, and 0.7 cm with the VLA. The fully calibrated light curves for Sgr A* at all three wavelengths are presented. Typical errors in the flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. M. Herrnstein , J. -H. Zhao , G. C. Bower , W. M. Goss

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

The radio emission from Sgr A$^\ast$ is thought to be powered by accretion onto a supermassive black hole of $\sim\! 4\times10^6~ \rm{M}_\odot$ at the Galactic Center. At millimeter wavelengths, Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)…

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…

We report the discovery of variability in the linear polarization from the Galactic Center black hole source, Sagittarius A*. New polarimetry obtained with the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association array at a wavelength of 1.3 mm shows a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Geoffrey C. Bower , Heino Falcke , Melvyn C. H. Wright , Donald C. Backer

The radiative counterpart of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre, Sagittarius A*, displays flaring emission in the X-ray band atop a steady, quiescent level. Flares are also observed in the near-infrared band. The physical…

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

X-ray flares have routinely been observed from the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A$^\star$ (Sgr A$^\star$), at our Galactic center. The nature of these flares remains largely unclear, despite of many theoretical models. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-16 Ya-Ping Li , Feng Yuan , Qiang Yuan , Q. Daniel Wang , P. F. Chen , Joseph Neilsen , Taotao Fang , Shuo Zhang , Jason Dexter

This chapter provides a detailed overview of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, located in the dense Galactic Center region approximately 8 kpc from Earth. Despite its relatively low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-27 Anna Ciurlo , Mark R. Morris

The compact radio source at the center of our Galaxy, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is the subject of intensive study as it provides a close-up view of an accreting supermassive black hole. Sgr A* provides us with a prototype of a low-luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-29 Christiaan Brinkerink , Heino Falcke , Andreas Brunthaler , Casey Law

Context: The supermassive black hole at the Galactic center, SgrA*, shows frequent radiation outbursts, often called 'flares'. In the near-infrared some of these flares were reported as showing intrinsic quasi-periodicities. The flux peaks…

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

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

The source of emission from Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, is still unknown. Flares and data from multiwavelength campaigns provide important clues about the nature of Sgr A* itself. Here we attempt to constrain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Dipankar Maitra , Sera Markoff , Heino Falcke

Super-Massive Black Holes reside in galactic nuclei, where they exhibit episodic bright flares due to accretion events. Taking into account relativistic effects, namely, the boosting and lensing of X-ray flares, we further examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Vladimir Karas , Michal Bursa , Michal Dovciak , Andreas Eckart , Monika Valencia-S , Munawwar Khanduwala , Michal Zajacek

Sagittarius~A$^*$, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, exhibits flares across various wavelengths, yet their origins remain elusive. We performed 3D two-temperature General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-18 Hong-Xuan Jiang , Yosuke Mizuno , Indu K. Dihingia , Feng Yuan , Xi Lin , Christian M. Fromm , Antonios Nathanail , Ziri Younsi

The linearly polarized millimeter and sub-millimeter emission in Sagittarius A* is produced within 10 Schwarzschild radii of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center and may originate from a hot magnetized accretion disk, where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Siming Liu , Lei Qian , Xue-Bing Wu , Christopher L. Fryer , Hui Li

The compact dark objects with very large masses residing at the centres of galaxies are believed to be black holes. Due to the gravitational lensing effect, they would cast a shadow larger than their horizon size over the background, whose…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lei Huang , Mike Cai , Zhi-Qiang Shen , Feng Yuan
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