NASA has released a stunning new picture of Milky Way's violent, super-energized "downtown."
It's a composite of 370 observations over the past two decades by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory. The picture depicts billions of stars and countless black holes in the center, or heart, of the Milky Way. This busy, high-energy galactic center is 26,000 light years away.
Astronomer Daniel Wang explained ‘there are a lot of supernova remnants, black holes, and neutron stars there’. Each X-ray dot or feature represents an energetic source, most of which are in the center, he said.