Black hole
Sagittarius A*
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2022.
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- Black hole
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Connections
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- Type: Black hole
- Domain: Scientific connections

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Locate
Located in The Milky Way.
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Connect
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- Object type
- Black hole
- Graph relations
- 12
- Verified sources
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- Image records
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- Scientific connections
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Atlas context
- Located in
The Milky Way
- Studied by
Chandra X-ray Observatory
- Scientifically related to
M87*
- Related to
The Milky Way's Central Black Hole
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- Black hole
- Graph relations
- 12
- Evidence sources
- 2
- Image records
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- Related toBlack Hole
- Associated withBondi Accretion
- Studied byChandra X-ray Observatory
- Associated withGravitational Redshift
- Scientifically related toM87*
Both supermassive black holes imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope.
- Depicted inSagittarius A* — The Milky Way's Black Hole
- Related toSupermassive Black Hole
- Related toThe Event Horizon
Image provenance
Photography as evidence
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Curated next objects
The Milky Way
The barred spiral galaxy that contains the Solar System, the Sun, and all stars visible to the naked eye.
space telescopeChandra X-ray Observatory
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is a NASA space telescope launched in 1999 that observes the universe in X-ray wavelengths.
black holeM87*
The supermassive black hole at the heart of galaxy M87, the first black hole ever directly imaged, in 2019.
historical discoveryThe Milky Way's Central Black Hole
Over three decades, the teams of Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez tracked stars orbiting the centre of the Milky Way, revealing a four-million-solar-mass black hole, Sagittarius A*.
cosmology conceptThe Event Horizon
The boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape.
astrophysical object classBlack Hole
A region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.
Observation
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Scientific data & provenance
Data & provenance
- Stable ID
black_hole:sagittarius-a-star- Type
- Black hole
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Relationships
- 12
- Graph version
- 1.0.0
Dataset membership
Open data
In the graph export: graph.json · graph.jsonld
Planned API: GET /api/v0/entities/black_hole:sagittarius-a-star
Scientific quality
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Provenance & sources
review 2026.1Asteria Scientific Review Process · verification: sourced · accurate
- High evidenceconfirmed
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, with a mass of about 4 million solar masses inferred from the orbits of nearby stars (2020 Nobel Prize in Physics).
Source: European Southern Observatory
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Scientific citations
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- Peer-reviewed paperFirst Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I.
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration · The Astrophysical Journal Letters 930, L12 · 2022
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration · doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac6674
Cite (APA / BibTeX)
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2022). First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I.. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 930, L12. Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac6674 @misc{cite:eht-sgra-2022, title = {First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I.}, author = {Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration}, organization = {Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration}, howpublished = {The Astrophysical Journal Letters 930, L12}, year = {2022}, doi = {10.3847/2041-8213/ac6674}, url = {https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac6674}, note = {First image of the Milky Way's central black hole, Sagittarius A*.} } - Institutional pageThe Galactic Centre black hole — ESO
European Southern Observatory
Cite (APA / BibTeX)
European Southern Observatory (n.d.). The Galactic Centre black hole — ESO. European Southern Observatory. https://www.eso.org/ @misc{cite:eso-sagittarius-a-star, title = {The Galactic Centre black hole — ESO}, organization = {European Southern Observatory}, year = {n.d.}, url = {https://www.eso.org/}, note = {Stellar-orbit monitoring of Sagittarius A* (2020 Nobel Prize).} } - Historical referenceThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
2020
The Nobel Prize
Cite (APA / BibTeX)
The Nobel Prize (2020). The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020. The Nobel Prize. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/ @misc{cite:nobel-physics-2020, title = {The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020}, organization = {The Nobel Prize}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/}, note = {Penrose; Genzel & Ghez (supermassive compact object at the Galactic centre).} }
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- TheoryGeneral RelativityLinked through The Milky Way's Central Black Hole
- Cosmology conceptGravitational SingularityLinked through The Event Horizon
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- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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- ESAEuropean Space Agency
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