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Sgr A* is an ideal target to study low-luminosity accreting systems. It has been recently proposed that properties of the accretion flow around Sgr A* can be probed through its interactions with the stellar wind of nearby massive stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 I. M. Christie , M. Petropoulou , P. Mimica , D. Giannios

We review our current understanding to the accretion and ejection processes in Sgr A*. Roughly speaking, they correspond to the quiescent and flare states of the source respectively. The high-resolution {\it Chandra} observations to the gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-17 Feng Yuan

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is a compact radio source at the Galactic center. Observations have confirmed that its mass is approximately (4.1)*10$^{6}$ M$_{\odot}$, and Sgr A* is generally believed to be powered by gas accretion onto a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-05 Shenyue Yin , Siming Liu

The radio source Sgr A* in the Galactic center emits a polarized spectrum at millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths that is strongly suggestive of relativistic disk accretion onto a massive black hole. We use the well-constrained mass of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Benjamin C. Bromley , Fulvio Melia , Siming Liu

Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, exhibits frequent short-duration flares with luminosity greater than 1e34 erg/s across multiple wavelengths. The origin of the flares is still unknown. We revisited the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Wen-Han Zhou , Yun Zhang , Jiamu Huang , Douglas N. C. Lin

The supermassive black hole Sgr A* is located at the Milky Way center. We studied its flaring activity close to the DSO/G2 pericenter passage to constrain the physical properties and origin of the flares. Simultaneous/coordinated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 E. Mossoux , N. Grosso , H. Bushouse , A. Eckart , F. Yusef-Zadeh , R. L. Plambeck , F. Peissker , M. Valencia-S. , D. Porquet , W. D. Cotton , D. A. Roberts

Multi-wavelength monitoring of Sgr A* flaring activity confirms the presence of embedded structures within the disk on size scales commensurate with the innermost accretion region, matching size scales that are derived from observed light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-10 E M Howard

The black hole at the Galactic Center, Sgr A*, is the prototype of a galactic nucleus at a very low level of activity. Its radio through submm-wave emission is known to come from a region close to the event horizon, however, the source of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Heino Falcke , Sera Markoff , Geoffrey C. Bower

The compact radio source Sgr A* is coincident with a 4 million solar mass black hole at the dynamical center of the Galaxy and is surrounded by dense orbiting ionized and molecular gas. We present high resolution radio continuum images of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 F. Yusef-Zadeh , R. Arendt , H. Bushouse , W. Cotton , D. Haggard , M. W. Pound , D. A. Roberts , M. Royster , M. Wardle

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

Variable emission from Sgr~A*, the luminous counterpart to the super-massive black hole at the center of our Galaxy, arises from the innermost portions of the accretion flow. Better characterization of the variability is important for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-06 Jordan M. Stone , D. P. Marrone , C. D. Dowell , B. Schulz , C. O. Heinke , F. Yusef-Zadeh

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

We present 44 and 226 GHz observations of the Galactic center within 20$"$ of Sgr A*. Millimeter continuum emission at 226 GHz is detected from eight stars that have previously been identified at near-IR and radio wavelengths. We also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 F. Yusef-Zadeh , R. Schödel , M. Wardle , H. Bushouse , W. Cotton , M. J. Royster , D. Kunneriath , D. A. Roberts , E. Gallego-Cano

We study the environment of Sgr A* using spectral and continuum observations with the ALMA and VLA. Our analysis of sub-arcsecond H30alpha, H39alpha, H52alpha and H56alpha line emission towards Sgr A* confirm the recently published broad…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Royster , M. Wardle , W. Cotton , D. Kunneriath , I. Heywood , J. Michail

An attempt is made to reconcile the large wind-loss rates of stars in the Galactic Centre (GC) with the predicted low accretion rate for Sgr A*, the putative blackhole at the heart of the Milky Way. It is found that, independent of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 R. F. Coker

Recently, unprecedentedly accurate data on the orbital motion of stars in the vicinity of the Sagittarius $ {\rm A^*}$ have been available. Such information can be used not only to constrain the mass of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Heon-Young Chang , Chul-Sung Choi

The recent detection of significant linear polarization at mm and sub-mm wavelengths in the spectrum of Sgr A* (if confirmed) will be a useful probe of the conditions within several Schwarzschild radii ($r_S$) of the event horizon at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Fulvio Melia , Siming Liu , Robert Coker

Sgr A* is the unique 1 Jy flat spectrum radio point source located at the dynamical center of the Galaxy and in the very center of the central star cluster. Due to its unusual appearance it has long been speculated that this source is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heino Falcke

Near-IR and X-ray flares have been detected from the supermassive black hole Sgr A* at the center of our Galaxy with a (quasi)-period of ~17-20 minutes, suggesting an emission region only a few Schwarzschild radii above the event horizon.…

We present a statistical analysis of polarized near-infrared (NIR) light from Sgr A*, the radio source associated with the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The observations have been carried out using the adaptive…