A little more than 26,000 years ago, a sleeping giant at the
center of our galaxy suddenly awoke, spewed several pulses of X-rays and went
back into hibernation.
That’s the conclusion of a long-term X-ray study of large
gas clouds near the Milky Way’s central, supermassive black hole — a
4-million-solar-mass monster dubbed Sagittarius A*.
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