Chandra Release - June 2, 2020

Visual Description: Galactic Center

This still image from a 3D visualization provides a unique view of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The background of the visualization is wide and dark, filled with bright red, white, and yellow stars and a lot of dark red gas and material clumped in various pockets around the image. The visualization is a 360-degree movie that immerses the viewer into a simulation of the center of our Galaxy. In this still image of it, the viewer is at the location of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy, and is able to witness about 25 Wolf-Rayet stars (white objects) orbiting Sgr A* as they continuously eject stellar winds (black to red to yellow color scale). These winds collide with each other, and then some of this material (yellow blobs) spirals towards Sgr A*.