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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

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

High-resolution observations with GRAVITY-VLTI instrument have provided abundant information about the flares in Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole in our Galactic center, including the time-dependent location of the centroid (a "hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-28 Lin Xi , Yuan Feng

Observations of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) in near-infrared (NIR) show irregular flaring activity. Flares coincide with astrometric rotation of brightness centroid and with looping patterns in fractional linear polarization. These signatures…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 A. I. Yfantis , M. Wielgus , M. A. Mościbrodzka

Low-luminosity supermassive and stellar-mass black holes (BHs) may be embedded in a collisionless and highly magnetized plasma. They show non-thermal flares indicative of efficient dissipative processes in the vicinity of the BH. During NIR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-13 I. El Mellah , B. Cerutti , B. Crinquand

High-resolution near infrared observations with GRAVITY instrument have revealed rapid orbital motions of a hot spot around Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole in our Galactic center, during its three bright flares. The projected distances…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Xi Lin , Ya-Ping Li , Feng Yuan

The emission from Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole in the Galactic Center, shows order of magnitude variability ("flares") a few times a day that is particularly prominent in the near-infrared (NIR) and X-rays. We present a…

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…

Sagittarius A*, the supermassive compact object at the center of the Galaxy, exhibits outbursts in the near infrared and X-ray domains. These flares are likely due to energetic events very close to the central object, on a scale of a few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 N. Hamaus , T. Paumard , T. Müller , S. Gillessen , F. Eisenhauer , S. Trippe , R. Genzel

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

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, undergoes large-amplitude near-infrared (NIR) flares that can coincide with the continuous rotation of the NIR emission region. One promising explanation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-18 Arpiar Avetis Grigorian , Jason Dexter

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

Recent measurements of stellar orbits provide compelling evidence that the compact radio source Sagittarius A* at the Galactic Centre is a 3.6-million-solar-mass black hole. Sgr A* is remarkably faint in all wavebands other than the radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Genzel , R. Schoedel , T. Ott , A. Eckart , T. Alexander , F. Lacombe , D. Rouan , B. Aschenbach

Energetic flares are observed in the Galactic supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* from radio to X-ray wavelengths. On a few occasions, simultaneous flares have been detected in IR and X-ray observations, but clear counterparts at longer…

Infrared observations of Sgr A* probe the region close to the event horizon of the black hole at the Galactic center. These observations can constrain the properties of low-luminosity accretion as well as that of the black hole itself. The…

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

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

The centre of the Milky Way hosts a supermassive black hole of 4 million solar masses called Sagittarius A*. This object has been observed for more than 20 years in the near infrared. This has confirmed some effects of General Relativity.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-02 Aimar Nicolas

We use a model of an accretion flow coupled with an emergent flare to interpret the latest 1.3mm VLBI measurements for Sagittarius A*. The visibility data constrained the distances from the flare center to the black hole center as $d_{\rm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Lei Huang , Zhi-Qiang Shen , Feng Gao

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
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