January 1, 2017

The region around Sagittarius A* (Image X-ray: NASA/UMass/D.Wang et al., IR: NASA/STScI)

An article published in the journal “Physical Review Letters” describes a research on Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. A team of scientists from the University of Princeton and the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) developed a new method to create a model of the accretion disk which feeds Sagittarius A*.