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We present numerical simulations of stellar wind dynamics in the central parsec of the Galactic centre, studying in particular the accretion of gas on to Sgr A*, the super-massive black hole. Unlike our previous work, here we use…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-08 Jorge Cuadra , Sergei Nayakshin , Fabrice Martins

The enigmatic radio source Sagittarius A* at the centre of our Galaxy appears to be a low-luminosity version of active galactic nuclei in other galaxies. By analogy with active galactic nuclei models, it has been proposed that Sgr A* may be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ramesh Narayan , Insu Yi , Rohan Mahadevan

The motion data of the S-stars around the Galactic center gathered in the last 28 yr imply that Sgr A* hosts a supermassive compact object of about $4\times 10^6$ $M\odot$, a result awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020. A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 E. A. Becerra-Vergara , C. R. Argüelles , A. Krut , J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

The Galactic Center is the closest galactic nucleus that allows us to determine the multi-frequency behavior of the supermassive black hole counterpart Sagittarius A* in great detail. We put SgrA*, as a nucleus with weak activity, into the…

In the neighborhood of Sgr A*, several stars (S2, S12, S14, S1, S8, S13) enjoy an accurate determination of their orbital parameters. General Relativity predicts that the central black hole acts as a gravitational lens on these stars,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Bozza , L. Mancini

The Galactic centre Nuclear Star Cluster is one of the densest stellar clusters in the Galaxy. The stars in its inner portions orbit the supermassive black hole associated with compact radio source Sgr~A* at the orbital speeds of several…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 Michal Zajaček , Arman Tursunov

As a key science project of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the discovery and timing observations of radio pulsars in the Galactic Center would provide high-precision measurements of the spacetime around the supermassive black hole,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-09 Zexin Hu , Lijing Shao

We present new SHARP/NTT stellar proper motion and accelaration data covering an interval from 1992 to 2000: 1) We combine the high precision but shorter time scale NIRC/Keck data with the lower precision but longer time scale SHARP/NTT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Eckart , R. Genzel , T. Ott , R. Schoedel

The supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), at the centre of the Milky Way undergoes regular flaring activity which is thought to arise from the innermost region of the accretion flow. We performed the monitoring observations of…

The history of star formation in the strong gravitational potential of the Galactic center has been of much interest, recently. We propose that the sub-parsec-scale disk of massive stars orbiting the massive black hole at the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-11 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Wardle

The region bounded by the inner tens of light years at the center of the Milky Way contains five principal components that coexist within the central deep gravitational potential well. These constituents are a black hole candidate (Sgr~A*)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. Yusef-Zade , F. Melia , M. Wardle

The gas cloud G2 falling toward Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is supposed to provide valuable information on the physics of accretion flows and the environment of the black hole. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-22 J. -H. Park , S. Trippe , T. P. Krichbaum , J. -Y. Kim , M. Kino , A. Bertarini , M. Bremer , P. de Vicente

In recent years, there has been increasing recognition of the potential of the galactic center as a probe of general relativity in the strong field. There is almost certainly a black hole at Sgr A* in the galactic center, and this would…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-24 Amitai Y. Bin-Nun

The Galactic center is an ideal laboratory to study strong-field general relativistic phenomena, as the supermassive black hole Sgr A* has the biggest angular Schwarzschild radius among all black holes. This article presents three different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-04 F. H. Vincent , E. Gourgoulhon , O. Straub , M. Abramowicz , J. Novak , T. Paumard , G. Perrin

Radio images of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), are dominated by interstellar scattering. Previous studies of Sgr A* have adopted an anisotropic Gaussian model for both the intrinsic source and the…

The central 0.1 parsecs of the Milky Way host a supermassive black hole identified with the position of the radio and infrared source Sagittarius A*, a cluster of young, massive stars (the S stars) and various gaseous features. Recently,…

The Milky Way's Galactic Center hosts the black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), which provides us with a close-up view into supermassive black hole accretion and feedback. Recent works have shown that the winds from $\sim 30$ Wolf-Rayet (WR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-16 Edward Skrabacz , Lena Murchikova , Sean M. Ressler , Asad Ukani , Siddhant Solanki

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is the central supermassive black hole with the mass $\sim 4\times 10^6 M_{\odot}$ in the Milky Way and stars are orbiting around it. In May 2018, one of the nearest stars to Sgr A* named S0-2/S2 experienced the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-12 Yohsuke Takamori , Shogo Nishiyama , Takayuki Ohgami , Hiromi Saida , Rio Saitou , Masaaki Takahashi

The Galactic Centre has been studied with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) for over 10 years, revealing a bright, complex gamma-ray morphology. Besides a strong point-like very-high-energy gamma-ray source coincident with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 R. D. Parsons , M. Holler , J. King , V. Lefranc , E. Moulin , H. Poon , J. Veh , A. Viana