Detail Man
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The public-domain NASA image:
"This Chandra image of Sgr A* and the surrounding region was made from a 164 hours of observation time over a two-week period. During this time the black hole flared up in X-ray intensity half a dozen or more times. The cause of these outbursts is not understood, but the rapidity with which they rise and fall indicates that they are occurring near the event horizon, or point of no return, around the black hole. Also discovered were more than two thousand other X-ray sources and huge lobes of 20 million-degree Centigrade gas (the red loops in the image at approximately the 2 o'clock and 7 o'clock positions). The lobes indicate that enormous explosions occurred near the black hole several times over the last ten thousand years."
"Spiced-up" with a little DxO Optics Pro 6 post-processing:
It's fun to post-process astro-photography because there is no pre-conception about "how it should properly appear" to the mind's eye ... and one may take "artistic license" with impunity ...
"This Chandra image of Sgr A* and the surrounding region was made from a 164 hours of observation time over a two-week period. During this time the black hole flared up in X-ray intensity half a dozen or more times. The cause of these outbursts is not understood, but the rapidity with which they rise and fall indicates that they are occurring near the event horizon, or point of no return, around the black hole. Also discovered were more than two thousand other X-ray sources and huge lobes of 20 million-degree Centigrade gas (the red loops in the image at approximately the 2 o'clock and 7 o'clock positions). The lobes indicate that enormous explosions occurred near the black hole several times over the last ten thousand years."
"Spiced-up" with a little DxO Optics Pro 6 post-processing:
It's fun to post-process astro-photography because there is no pre-conception about "how it should properly appear" to the mind's eye ... and one may take "artistic license" with impunity ...